Operations Engineer - Senior

The production team work in an agile environment providing all levels of support to the trading and sales desks, monitor the Ion platform to proactively prevent issues, and handle problem resolution from first call to releasing fixes into production. Approximately 70% of the time will be spent implementing small commercial and larger maintenance changes, handling the whole change from requirements, liaising with Ion, testing and release. Examples might include Integrating a new venue for an existing desk and major upgrades such as PXE.

• Detailed knowledge of the entire Ion stack including gateways, Routers, PXE, VMO, VMQ, STP, TFA and MMI.

• Detailed knowledge of the Fixed Income electronic trading venues, both D2D and D2C.

• Detailed understanding of Fixed Income trade flows (pricing, quoting, RFQ, STP, settlement, regulatory reporting etc), particularly for Euro Govt. and IRS products.

• Good understanding infrastructure underpinning the Ion platform

o Networks
o Linux (including scripting)
o Databases (including basic SQL)

• Experience of all levels of support within a front office environment, demonstrating an understanding of incident and problem management.

• Experience of delivering changes within an Ion platform, from requirements gathering to implementation. Including a good understanding of change management processes.

• Experience of Bloomberg TOMS would be desirable but not essential.

• Willingness to participate in a support rota (7:30am start) and occasionally working on bank holidays."

If you are interested please send your resume, rate and availability