Graduate Trading OpsDevOps Engineer

Do you want to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment where your ideas make a difference Join Flow Traders as a Graduate Trading Operations Engineer at our headquarters in Amsterdam!

Flow Traders is looking for a Graduate Trading Operations Engineer to join our growing Trading Operations team in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high the sky is the limit.

As part of our Trading Operations team you will work within our technology landscape to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems and the related this role you will act as an SRE Operations Engineer and Developer taking ownership of technical issues and contributing directly to the companys performance. You will collaborate closely with teams across the business to gain a well-rounded understanding of how our trading applications function and evolve.

What you will do

• Gain expertise in our latency-sensitive trading application stacks contribute to troubleshooting in a fast-paced environment and implement solutions
• Write test and integrate monitoring tools using APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications to enhance system visibility and performance
• Work closely with system administrators to fine-tune Linux-based trading environments
• Contribute to the automation of our infrastructure and application management
• Build use and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Conduct user acceptance testing across internal application stacks and understand how traders and support teams utilize our software
• Provide technical input to improve the operational effectiveness of our applications
• Develop your scripting skills (Python or others) by automating complex workflows in collaboration with trading desks

What you need to succeed

• University degree in Computer Science Mathematics or another quantitative field
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (C Python Go or JavaScript)
• Basic knowledge or interest in networking
• Familiarity or interest in technologies such as Ansible Docker Kubernetes or Kafka is a plus
• Demonstrates a strong sense of teamwork effective communication and problem-solving skills
  

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