System Integration Engineer

Ref: ZUG-022
City: CH - Zug
Experience: Intermediate / Mid-level

Role Description

You will join a young and highly motivated team of individuals responsible for running our trading software. As a System Integration Engineer, you are in charge of maintaining the performance, availability and security of our cutting edge in-house trading systems. In addition, you are responsible for the integration of software components, exchange interfacing applications and the management of deployments. You will also work with international teams to drive global thinking, information sharing and long term solutions.

Key Accountabilities

Ensure high availability, stability and high performance of our trading platform
Prioritize, troubleshoot and resolve major incidents in a high pressure environment
Measure and identify improvements of performance for our trading infrastructure as well as translate trading team requests into concrete performance requirements.
Work together with traders, software developers as well as IT and network engineers in order to continuously improve systems and processes
Coordinate, prioritize and plan system upgrades, patches and bug fixes
Create, maintain and improve necessary supporting documentation

Knowledge and skill requirements

University degree in Computer Science or similar path of study
At least 4 years of relevant work experience preferable at a financial institute
In-depth knowledge and experience with of Linux operating system
Strong understanding of TCP/IP protocols
Experience with various ways to deploy java applications as well as good understanding of JVM
Expert level troubleshooting skills
Excellent command of bash scripting
Experience with MySQL querying
Analytical thinking and ability to adapt quickly to fast changing requirements
Flexible, proactive, hands-on mentality, able to work independently in a team setting
Fluent in English

Highly desired skills