Production Support Engineer

Role: Production Support Engineer

Location: South Jordan, Utah

Core Responsibilities:

• Monitor and respond to user-reported issues as well as infrastructure alerts promptly and professionally ,ensure issues are tracked through to resolution.
• Ensure efficient incident management, ensuring accurate communication to impacted groups and timely resolution.
• Facilitate root cause investigations and manage the implementation of corrective and preventative measures.
• Manage coverage during North America, Asia and Europe market hours, including weekend pre-open ready-for-business checks. Proactively identify and respond promptly to failures.
• Partner with development teams to drive stability, operational excellence, and a culture of efficiency.
• Ensure team knowledge is current and forward-looking.
• Respond to regulatory and compliance issues with urgency.
• Liaise with external technology vendors and exchanges to coordinate changes and resolve connectivity and market data issues.
• Review, execute, and verify production changes in strict accordance with procedures defined in change documents.
• Take an active role in planned technology events, i.e. business continuity tests, ensuring recovery procedures are accurate and complete.
• Leverage tools and resources available within the firm to simplify, automate, or eliminate inefficiencies.

Required Skills:

• Strategic mindset with specific focus on tooling, automation, and efficiency
• Able to troubleshoot, problem solver, analytical
• Proficiency with Linux
• Proficiency with Databases
• Strong scripting skills, like Perl, Python, or UNIX shell.
• Network diagnostic skills and experience with networks and real-time messaging technologies (multicast, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP)
• Excellent spoken and written English communication skills.
• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science or related field from an accredited college or university.

Desired Skills:

• Experience providing application support for mission-critical applications
• Good working knowledge of trading and risk management business concepts
• Familiarity with job scheduling tools (Autosys) and version control tools (Perforce/Clear Case)
• Familiarity with Cloud technologies and supporting applications hosted on cloud