Senior Front Office Application Support – Asset Management Firm | Up to £110 TC
A highly successful asset management firm are searching for a Senior Front Office Application Support Engineer to join their team. This hire will work directly with traders to offer support across their trading stack, whilst also driving automation and monitoring across the platform and facilitating their migration to Azure Kubernetes.
Below I have included a breakdown of the role, company, and requirement. Please review and if the opportunity seems like a good fit share your CV!
Role Details:
- Provide support to their front office applications including trade execution, pricing, trade capture, and risk
- Work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where no 2 days are the same
- Support a mixture of in-house built and third party applications across a Windows and Cloud environment
- Engage in ongoing project work to facilitate an on-going migration to Azure Kubernetes
- Proactively identify opportunities for Python/PowerShell automation
- Configure monitoring and alerting across the application estate
- Troubleshoot Kubernetes containers and Azure ServiceBus
- Willingness to upskill this hire on any missing unessential technical skillsets with a combination of on the job learning and dedicated industry training courses
- Strongly compensated on-call rota (1 in every 4 weeks)
Company:
- Asset Management firm with consistent year on year market performance
- High retention rates
- Strong internal mobility – opportunity to move across functions multiple times
- c.800 Company size – Big enough for consistent on-going projects/investments, but small enough to have direct access to C-Level individuals and to maintain a strong friendly culture
- 3 days in office per week, 2 days work from home
Requirements:
- 5 years minimum of application support experience
- Experience within a front office trading environment
- SQL experience
- Monitoring tooling experience (preferably experience configuring)
- Bonus: Windows, Azure, Python, PowerShell, Kubernetes, ServiceBus
Senior Front Office Application Support employer: Stanford Black Limited
Contact Detail:
Stanford Black Limited Recruiting Team