Senior Associate, Trading System - DevOps Engineer

Business Function

Group Technology and Operations (T&O) enables and empowers the bank with an efficient, nimble and resilient infrastructure through a strategic focus on productivity, quality & control, technology, people capability and innovation. In Group T&O, we manage the majority of the Bank's operational processes and inspire to delight our business partners through our multiple banking delivery channels.


Responsibilities

• Responsible in the design and development of highly complex and scalable Python modules.
• Take ownership of end-to-end technical delivery against project timelines and requirements.
• Participate in requirement analysis while recommending alternative solutions.
• Integrate applications using middle ware software’s such as Avro kafka and database design.
• Deploy applications to open shift via CICD pipeline.
• Working with application support, developers, and product owners to ensure successful releases.
• Flexibility to work extra hours to meet corporate and departmental goals.
• Must have the ability to prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks in a fast-paced environment while working under pressure.

Requirements

• Degree in Computing / Computer Science / Engineering preferred.
• 3 to 8 experience preferably in the financial / fintech industry.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum methodology.
• Excellent troubleshooting and debugging abilities for 2 tier and multi-tier applications.
• Should have worked as first line application support for trading systems and back office with experience in analysing of issues raised by end users and general system checks and maintenance tasks.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills.
• Experience in documenting the design and development work in confluence.
• Expertise in Python (OOPs Concepts, flask/Django frame works, multi-trading, web sockets, and analytics tools such as pandas, NumPy etc).
• Highly Experienced in Database designing of SQL and PL-SQL with expertise in at least one RDBMS, preferably Maria DB and MS- SQL.
• Highly Experienced in writing batch scripts using shell scripting.
• Experience in Linux, OpenShift, Avro based kafka, Dockers, Nginx, Sentinel Redis, AngularJS basics, Rest API’s (Flask), JSON and web sockets amongst others.
• Experience in CI-CD (Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery) pipeline with experience in Bitbucket.

Good To Have

• Preferrable to have knowledge in FIX protocols terminology and have either supported or worked with any trading brokers to subscribe to market data.
• Preferrable to have understanding of trading systems (such as Bloomberg , Market Axess and UBS etc)
• Preferrable to have analytics and visualisation techniques knowledge.
• Preferrable to have knowledge on Fixed Income Products.

We offer a competitive salary and benefits package and the professional advantages of a dynamic environment that supports your development and recognises your achievements.