Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Deploy, monitor, and configure a complex suite of trading applications • Provide exceptional trade support to high frequency trading floor in a competitive market making environment • Provide skilled hands-on technical expertise to trading, risk, middle office, and compliance teams across Windows and Linux • Develop fluency with existing systems, infrastructure, and procedures and proactively improve them • Intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control • Script against xml, json, databases, and logs • Gather and analyze metrics to improve and report on the performance and efficiency of trading systems • Work in tandem with development to ensure the health and stability of the production trading environment • Continually drive production systems toward cleanliness, simplicity, and reliability • Participate in deep dive investigations necessary in troubleshooting and improving low latency systems • Track and solve issues as part of a fast-paced results driven set of IT teams
• Liaise closely with technology and trading teams to gather monitoring and analysis requirements • Design, create and maintain a new availability monitoring framework for trading processes • Test, deploy and maintain a new framework for gathering trading performance figures • Improve design and usability of the Optiver performance monitoring – system to measure latencies between money loops and exchanges; deployment of such monitoring system on larger scale to multiple co-locations. • Redesign and implement infrastructure to investigate performance of market links and theoretical prices calculators. • Provide statistics on IT and trading performance, such as autotrading latencies, autoquoting and autotrading success rates, availability of trading systems and processes, market links behaviour. • Redact monthly management reports on trading and IT KPIs
Involved with locating and contacting new distributors and resellers, extending/expanding the market, organizing events (locally and abroad), participating in international fairs.
C++ implementation of the Local Mail Transfer Protocol in the Zarafa Delivery Agent.