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Proprietary TradingPosted 9 days ago
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**Core Operations Engineer** - Steer Virtu's global electronic trading system, managing deployments, maintenance, and enhancements. Key responsibilities include counterparty support, risk management, and system triage in a high-pressure, time-sensitive Linux environment. Required skills are: Linux expertise, proficiency in Python/Bash, pressure-resilient nature, interest in high-transaction/trading systems, and excellent communication. Familiarity with SQL, configuration management platforms (e.g., Ansible), and networking are pluses. Solid academic record and technical savviness expected. Initial screening via HackerRank online coding test.
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Full Job Description
Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting-edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide
THE ROLE
Virtus Core Operations Engineers form a small, fast-paced global team dedicated to managing the deployment, maintenance, and enhancement of a sophisticated electronic trading system operating on hundreds of venues around the world. They are positioned at the very forefront of our technologys interaction with the financial markets, requiring them to work well under high-stress situations and have an ability to react decisively and quickly in time-sensitive situations. This team is the first point of contact for all our external trading connections and, as such, they perform a dynamic mix of functions. This includes everything from counterparty support to risk management and system triage/optimization.
Our Core Operations Engineers operate at a high-level in a Linux environment to solve complex technical problems and work with traders and exchanges to understand micro-market structure. A strong interest in the markets and technology is a must. This is a unique job opportunity to become an integral part of a fast-paced electronic trading environment.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Excellent working knowledge of Linux environments
- Competence in at least one programming language preferably Python / Bash.
- Ability to be cool under pressure and at ease in high-stress, time-sensitive environments
- Interest in high transaction environments and/or low-latency systems.
- Excellent communication skills
- Strong academic record
- Technical agility; interest in innovative technologies
Always a plus:
- Working with financial systems; or knowledge of the world financial marketplace
- Experience with SQL
- Experience with configuration management platforms (i.e. Ansible, Puppet or Salt)
- Knowledge of networking, both TCP and UDP
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