Production Support Engineer

Production Support Engineer

Millennium’s Application Support Production Engineering teams provide Level 2/3 support for the UAT and production environment for all Front Office and Middle Office applications across all asset classes and trading strategies, including platform environment management and software deployment for applications related to Pre-trade Risk and Analysis, Trading Execution, Post-Trade, and PnL. 

We work closely with a variety of other Technology teams at Millennium, including Level 1/2 Trade Apps Support Analyst, Application Developers, QA Testers, Infrastructure, and Back Office teams.  We face off and communicate daily with all Portfolio Managers, Execution Traders, and business teams.

Our key strategy for effective Production Engineering revolves around building automation logic and tools to efficiently manage a continually scaling enterprise footprint. We use a combination of in-house and industry-standard tools for configuration management, application deployment, and monitoring solutions, while leveraging frameworks which can quickly provide a holistic view of the overall platform. We provide a controlled and risk-averse change management ensuring quality software gets delivered in a timely manner.

Principal Responsibilities

• Solve technical trading-related issues, independently where possible or leveraging teammates as necessary. Escalate to application and/or infrastructure subject matter experts (internally or at vendors) when appropriate. Manage communications to the trading staff and internal stakeholders, primarily our execution services team regarding issue/resolution.
• Collaborate with other technical support engineers who may need assistance working on an issue; utilize his/her area of expertise to help others in order to quickly facilitate solutions for the customer.
• Build working relationships with trading groups, with a focus on execution services team. Work with global counterparts to provide seamless global coverage.
• Trading Infrastructure / Platform Status Communications – disseminate messages to the appropriate trading staff regarding trading infrastructure / platform issues, exchange updates, etc.
• Uplift environment management tools to reduce risk and streamline efficiency of support team.
• Assist with automating processes to achieve efficiency and streamlined trade support.
• Document and create new knowledge base to provide the most effective solutions to trading issues.
• Deployment of, support of, and monitoring of the firm’s internal trading systems.
• Coordinate with vendors, internal application owners, infrastructure owners, and tech support to ensure trading platforms are correctly installed, configured, and tested.
• Liaise with development and infrastructure teams, prioritize tool enhancements, and coordinate and participate in software/new version releases.
• Liaise with Dev and Infrastructure teams to coordinate and participate in software/new version releases.

Qualifications Required:

• 5+ years of experience in a Linux environment and use of relevant support tools
• Experience with shell scripting, python and SQL technologies
• Experience in financial technology and FIX protocols
• Able to work in a fast-paced global team as individual contributor.
• Need to be able to multitask across simultaneous projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with version control systems (GIT a plus).
• Experience with and proponent of the SDLC processes.
• Strong analytics skills, and ability to proactively identify issues before they become major problems.
• Detail-oriented, demonstrating thoroughness and strong ownership of work.
• Quick learner with a demonstrated strong aptitude for learning new technologies and understanding how to utilize them.
• Columnar database experience (just as KDB) a plus
• Experience managing software on AWS a plus.