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Systems Engineer II - ESP

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Whitehouse, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Mid level
Whitehouse, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Mid level
The Systems Engineer II will ensure the reliability of trading systems, improve observability and alerting, and support application migration to GCP. Responsibilities include incident response, technical discussions, mentorship, and automation improvements.
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We are seeking a passionate Systems Engineer II - ESP (Tue - Sat) to join our dynamic team.

The Systems Engineer II - ESP (Tue - Sat) will help ensure the reliability and performance of our trading and clearing server environment.

The successful applicant must be able to solve problems creatively, communicate effectively, and work both independently and collaboratively.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Collaborate with Systems Engineers, SRE's and Product engineering teams to monitor, maintain and troubleshoot our Markets systems technology platform.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to improve observability and alerting of our platform to enable data-driven business decisions, faster issue detection and incident resolution.
  • Contribute to incident response and on-call rotation - own and resolve escalated incidents, identifying and mitigating root causes associated with distributed computing architecture (client server, intranet/internet), h/w platforms and resources: CPU, memory, virtualization, clustering and Cloud computing.
  • Take accountability for delivery of moderately-complex incidents, problems and changes.
  • Lead technical discussions for own work and present solutions and approaches.
  • Support the migration of markets applications & infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
  • Assist in automating tasks to enhance system scalability and reliability.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to improve system performance and efficiency
  • Defines problems and describes the cause and effect relationship; gathers and compares data about the problems with supervision and documents the details
  • Act as a mentor to L2 and L1 colleagues.

Skills:

  • Experience with Linux & Windows-based systems and Cloud-based platform(s).
  • Strong problem-solving and analytical abilities.
  • Excellent effective communication and teamwork skills.
  • Experience and knowledge of working with distributed systems.
  • Exposure to working with metrics & monitoring:  Splunk, Grafana etc.
  • Experience working with Infrastructure as Code.
  • Competent scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.).
  • Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced trading environment.

Desirable:

  • Knowledge of Google Cloud Platform, GKE, and/or GCE.
  • Basic knowledge of networking (HTTP/TCP/UDP/IP).
  • Experience with Docker & Kubernetes
  • Experience in Financial markets.
  • Experience working in an agile environment.

Company Benefits:

  • Bonus Programme
  • Equity Programme
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Private Medical and Dental coverage
  • Mental Health Benefit Programme
  • Group Pension Plan
  • Income Protection
  • Life Assurance
  • Cycle To Work
  • EV Car Benefit Scheme
  • Gym Membership
  • Family Leave
  • Education Assistance – MBA/Advanced Degree/Bachelor Degree
  • Ongoing Employee Development Training/Certification
  • Hybrid Working

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Top Skills

Bash
Docker
Google Cloud Platform
Grafana
Kubernetes
Linux
Python
Splunk
Windows

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