Job Highlights:
- Solid track record as a DevOps Engineer with exceptional ability in identifying problems and resolving issues in timely manner
- Excellent English communicator, written and verbal, and have high tolerance for continually shifting priorities
- Out-of-the-box thinking, excellent problem solving skills and interpersonal/ communication skills
- Must have valid visa (PR or Citizenship) to work in SG
- Non financial industry experience are ok
Company Culture:
- Leading international proprietary trading / liquidity providing firms in the low-latency / high-frequency arena.
- Dynamic, fast-paced, collaborative, flat team environment.
Job Description:
Job Responsibilities:
- Manage the deployment, maintenance, and enhancement of trading system
- Identify, diagnose and trouble-shoot complex problems to keep trading online
- Build new tools to manage trading system for reduced efforts and errors
- Automate software distribution and deployments under Linux applications
- Be the forefront of the crossroad of technology and financial markets
- Work with Risk and trading teams to understand and facilitate gathering of system requirements
- Manage daily changes and communicate timely status updates to the relevant working parties and/ management
Key Requirements:
- Strong academic record is a Must
- Bachelor/Master Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related discipline
- Excellent working knowledge of Linux environments
- Fluent with one of the scripting languages: Python, Bash, Perl, etc
- Must have excellentEnglish communication skills, both written & verbal
- Must be able to manage multiple projects/priorities at the same time and have high tolerance for continually shifting priorities
- Non financial industry experience are ok
- Good understanding of networking concepts, such as multicasting, routing, is a plus
- Strong knowledge of SQL is a plus
- Familiar with configuration management systems (Salt, Puppet, Chef, etc) and monitoring tools (Solarwinds, Nagios, Cacti, etc) is a plus
Personality Fit:
- Passionate about financial markets, technology advancement, mathematics and software development.
- Self-motivated, ability to work well in teams and also individually and is open to new challenges.
- Self-driven and be able to work productively under minimal supervision.
- Excellent critical thinking, detail-oriented and prudent
- Flexible & can multi-task & well at collaborating with others
Excellent opportunity and exposures:
- Have a direct impact on the company’s trading profits through developing, maintaining and enhancing trading systems to stay ahead in the highly competitive international financial markets
- Will be surrounded by high calibre team members who are eager to solve difficult challenges together.
- Competitive package including performance-driven bonus