Support Technician - Networks

Squarepoint is a global investment management firm that utilizes a diversified portfolio of systematic and quantitative strategies across financial markets that seeks to achieve high quality, uncorrelated returns for our clients. We have deep expertise in trading, technology and operations and attribute our success to rigorous scientific research. As a technology and data-driven firm, we design and build our own cutting-edge systems, from high performance trading platforms to large scale data analysis and compute farms. Building on our quantitative research platform and process-driven approach, Squarepoint also runs discretionary strategies to augment our systematic approach and monetize opportunities which may not be suitable to be traded in a systematic strategy. Role: Trade Flow Support – Trading Application Support
Manage global trading platform readiness: pre-trading & post-trading
Provide monitoring and support for end to end transaction flow across the trading platform
Intensive interaction with trading community, back office operations, brokers, exchanges, development and infrastructure teams
Support scheduled changes: application deployments, network implementations and server maintenance
Identify inefficiencies such as repetitive activities, manual processes and suboptimum tools/workflows to drive continuous improvements via automation, collaboration with internal and external teams
Hands on trade flow support experience a must
Proficient in Linux OS
Proficiency with Bash and a scripting language such as Python or Perl required
Experience in SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL)
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject
Strong verbal/written communication skills required to support daily interaction with brokers, exchanges, and internal teams
Experience with the Atlassian stack (JIRA, Service Desk, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo), Elastic Stack and Nagios
Knowledge of ITIL is an advantage