Darwin Recruitment has partnered with a financial tech company based in New York City searching for a Senior Application Support Engineer. The experienced engineer will be supporting their low-latency trading platform. This is a fantastic growth opportunity for those looking to advance their skillset and wear multiple hats in the operations team.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with the Production Support Engineer to maintain Level 2 support for the trading platform
• Initial focus on supporting QA/test environments, building up to production support (including on-call rotation)
• Operations acceptance testing in accepting releases from Development and QA into production
• Eventually take over release management responsibilities and serve as the bridge between QA and Operations
• Automation - as you get comfortable with the role, introduce automation into deployments, tests, health checks, etc.

Technical Requirements

• Expert level BASH scripting skills - writing well structured, readable, maintainable code
• Strong Linux experience
• SQL query skills
• Prior experience in the finance industry is a plus

Darwin Recruitment is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.