Trade Desk Technical Support Assistant recruitment

A privately held proprietary trading firm, seeks a skilled and enthusiastic support assistant for our trade desk operations in downtown Chicago.  This position is a great opportunity for a motivated, brilliant, focused individual seeking exposure to worldwide futures, options and ETF markets.

PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

        Add and remove symbols as needed from production servers.

        Maintain production machines by installing libraries and upgrading required tools as necessary.

        Build and install new versions of our production software.

        Manage archiving procedures of production logs/data.

        Provide archived data for research when requested.

       Update parameters for production on a daily basis as directed by FE.

       Manage production scripts.

                    Maintain existing scripts.

              Create new scripts as needed.

               Document scripts.

         Design/Create/Manage reports on system and production application        performance.

        Become familiar with the trading operation as a whole – be able to assist in ad hoc changes as trading conditions and/or production conditions dictate.

        Do sanity checks on production data and systems

                 Create a procedure.

                 Create and test scripts to follow the procedure

                 Run the process throughout the day

         Configure test boxes in production to facilitate testing of new models and data capture

JOB REQUIREMENTS

         Enthusiastically motivated by all that goes into trading

         Highly analytical and thrives on “making the system succeed”

         Well organized, detailed oriented

         Effective communicator

         Ability to work off hours

         Experience in trading industry, a plus

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

       Bachelors degree in computer science or engineering

      2 years experience in maintaining a production environment:

          Linux systems administration

         MySQL

         Bash, Perl, Python