[Middle Office] Application Support Technician
[online recruitment]
[online recruitment]
Location: Remote Poland
Reference number: VR-63186
Project Description:
We are expanding the applications support team in the hedge fund. The scope includes trading applications, risk management and reporting, market data processing, market surveillance and intelligence, accounting, reporting and more.
Our star team is successfully handling challenges of a high paced environment, high volume of data, demand for top-class performance, availability and reliability. We utilize a wide stack of technologies and keep innovating and adopting new architectures and ways to retain leadership in the marketplace. The support team works in US working hours.
We are looking for engineers highly proficient in technologies, sense of ownership, ready to continue learning, willing to learn from mistakes and continue excelling.
Join our international team remotely or with relocation to Warsaw, Poland. Work with mature technical experts and obtain experience in various IT areas. Get a hands-on experience with top-notch investment applications.
Responsibilities
- Provide support service for front and middle office financial applications, such as trading platforms, risk and portfolio management tools.
- Cover Event, Incident, Problem and Knowledge management process.
- Participate in project activities as part of continuous service improvement.
- Collaborate with business and technical stakeholders to ensure environment stability.
- Perform Environment monitoring and issues resolution during US market hours. Support end-to-end data flows and health/sanity checks of the systems/applications.
- Ensure platform stability (application work in frames of agreed SLA, notify Luxoft management/Client in case of unexpected behavior)
- Ensure issue resolutions happen within agreed RTO.
- Logs review, data discovery in database tables for investigation of workflows failures. Raise a defect and start pro-active work on the resolution when the issue got identified. Escalate unexpected behavior found during the logic review (bugs in implementation) to the implementers team
- Investigate and supply analysis for fix application/configuration issues on production environment (improper configuration/deny of services etc.) , support defect fixes rollouts
- Contact/chase responsible support/upstream/downstream/cross teams and ask for root cause analysis from them on issues preventing end-to-end flow to work as designed (other development/service teams to get details on disruption of services/unexpected behavior, incorrect data flow from external applications)
- Be responsible for governance process during issue remediation and post root cause investigation process
- Work with Windows and Unix Based applications, organized as a microservices within various containerization tool. Get hands-on experience with on-previse and cloud infrastructure and services. Automate support tasks with CI/CD and Orchestrations tools.
- Update knowledge articles on new issues (classify known issues, symptoms and workarounds/fixes)
- Be responsible for monitoring set-up and maintenance.
Skills
- 5+ years of experience as a Production Support Engineer.
- Financial / Investment domain.
- Technologies: Unix (bash/Shell); Windows(PowerShell); MSSQL DB; SQL/PLSQL; Docker; MangoDB; .NET (as a application); Batch processing tools: Activebatch (Control-M/Autosys; Logstash); Kibana; Elasticsearch.
- English (written, spoken - upper-intermediate).
- Strong analytical mindset, sense of ownership, client-oriented, strong communication skills.
- Strong MSSQL Database knowledge and CRUD concept (PL/SQL, MSQL, and tools knowledge is a must).
- Experience with .Net \ Java applications - working with logs, troubleshooting, debugging.
- Strong SQL/PLSQL is a must.
- Strong knowledge of Unix like and Windows platforms.
- Practical experience with data gathering and processing, data discovery.
- Experience with XML like file formats - Knowledge of FIX protocol will be an advantage
- Experience with a batch system like Activebatch, Control-M, Autosys.
- Understanding of ITIL framework and SDLC process.
- Knowledge in investment banking like trade lifecycle, portfolio management, risks - will be a strong advantage.
- Experience with support of reporting systems
- Good scripting - bash, shell, PowerShell (or any other languages)
- Readiness to work in US working hours (EST time zone)
Our offer
Career and Professional Development
- International projects for clients all over the world
- Competitive salary
- Individual development plan
- Managerial Targeted Training programs
- BRIDGE Mentoring Program
- Luxoft Training Center
- Language Classes
- Self-learning online library
- Global Relocation Program
- Internal Mobility (a chance to gain experience in varied projects and technologies)
- Professional communities for knowledge-sharing (Agile, Tech, Business)
- Group Life Insurance
- Travel Insurance
- Private Healthcare (dental care, unlimited consultations of specialist physicians)
- Medical costs reimbursement for employees
- Benefit Program (Cafeteria and Multisport Card)
- LuxGood Program (a wide range of health and well-being initiatives)
- After-hours groups (sport, trips, board games, cultural activities)
- Company and Team events
- BeLux - discount offers program (banking, car leasing, other)
- Convenient locations in modern offices
Career and Professional Development
- International projects for clients all over the world
- Competitive salary
- Individual development plan
- Managerial Targeted Training programs
- BRIDGE Mentoring Program
- Luxoft Training Center
- Language Classes
- Self-learning online library
- Global Relocation Program
- Internal Mobility (a chance to gain experience in varied projects and technologies)
- Professional communities for knowledge-sharing (Agile, Tech, Business)
Well-being
- Group Life Insurance
- Travel Insurance
- Private Healthcare (dental care, unlimited consultations of specialist physicians)
- Medical costs reimbursement for employees
- Benefit Program (Cafeteria and Multisport Card)
Work-Life Balance
- LuxGood Program (a wide range of health and well-being initiatives)
- After-hours groups (sport, trips, board games, cultural activities)
- Company and Team events
- BeLux - discount offers program (banking, car leasing, other)
- Convenient locations in modern offices
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