Duties :
Jefferies is seeking for an Equity Application Support Engineer to play an instrumental role in supporting Front office trading application, risk and middle office real time products, developed and used for Equity Trading applications. This includes:
Primary Responsibilities:
- Provide Level 2/3 application production support for in scope of Equity related applications
- Global support and includes weekend availability to troubleshoot production related issues and perform checkouts
- Ability to work both independently and in groups in an energetic, diverse environment
- Problem research and resolution. Responsible for tracking bugs and stability issues that affect the production environment and drive changes to mitigate
- Debugging the system and fixing the production related issues
- Handles complex operational tasks and recommends process and technology changes
- Expedient deployment of new systems. Capacity planning, Problem management
- Escalate / follow-up on permanent fix for development related issues
- Manage communication of system and application outages to the end users whenever required
- Resolve complex application and technical problems and Provide solutions for application automation
- Build, test and install software in Dev, QA, Prod/DR environment
- Proactive with respect to personal and technical development
Desired Experience/ Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics
- Expertise in operating windows and Linux environment with good command over any scripting language such as Shell, Perl, Python, etc.
- Application/Production Support Experience at a Wall Street firm
- Strong knowledge of FIX protocol
- Strong Knowledge of order flow into and out of equity systems Knowledge of Structure Products, SWAP, and Derivative business
- Strong Knowledge of Kafka, Hazelcast and snowflake services
- Understanding of client and exchange connectivity support
- Understanding of Equities products and program trading businesses from a technology standpoint
- Knowledge of Devops tools such Bamboo or Jenkins
- Hands-on experience in support of a real-time trading environment
- Knowledge of support applications that use high-performance messaging/middleware
- Strong analytical, and verbal and written communication skills
- Java, C#, C++ ,.net development skills set, nice plus
Personal Attributes
- Good communication skills, including the ability to write clearly
- Able to function effectively as a member of a team
Proactive with respect to personal and technical development
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The salary range for this role is $150,000-$180,000.