Job description Posted 03 January 2023

Business / Function:FX ITRole:eRisk Low Latency EngineerLocation:8CS

Overview:

  

Low Latency Linux Engineer

Purpose of the Job:

 

The eRisk team is responsible for the for the FX electronic trading business, providing infrastructure and services for pricing, trading and risk management.

 

We are seeking an experienced engineer to join an established development team to assist with managing the infrastructure, performance analysis and tuning of the existing applications and infrastructure.

 

Responsible For:

 

Designing, implementing and maintaining low latency co-located infrastructure. Ensuring that the appropriate metrics are being collected and analysing the data to identify opportunities to improve efficiency.

Design, test and implement changes to reduce application and infrastructure latency.

Working with third party vendors and exchanges to ensure new features / functionality are optimally designed and tested. 

Help to diagnose and resolve performance issues within the production environment.

 ESSENTIAL CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS (Experience, skills, competencies etc)

Linux kernel expertise and tuning skills

Understanding of hardware layer of software execution stack (CPU components, QPI/NUMA, RDIMM, TLB, ultra-low latency network adapters)

Deep understanding of networking (all OSI layers, expertise in TCP and UDP), familiarity with PTP

RHEL7/8 server administration and patching

Experience with configuration management and automation tools (puppet, ansible etc)

 IDEAL CANDIDATE REQCUIRMENTS (Experience, skills, competencies etc)

Foreign Exchange, Co-location and ECN experience

Experience with third party middle ware 29 West / Ultra Messaging and RMDS / TREP

Knowledge of Kx/KDB

Familiarity with FIX protocol

Experience using Azul Zing