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