Flow Traders is hiring a
Graduate Trading Operations/DevOps Engineer in Netherlands

Summary

Flow Traders is seeking a Graduate Trading Ops/DevOps Engineer for their growing Trading Operations team in Amsterdam. The role involves safeguarding the performance of proprietary trading systems, troubleshooting, implementing solutions, working closely with system administrators and Cloud SREs, automating infrastructure and application management, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, conducting user acceptance testing, and improving operational effectiveness.

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Maths, or other quantitative fields
• 0-2 years work experience
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems
• Proficiency with any of the following programming languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, C++)

Responsibilities

• Gain expertise of our latency sensitive trading application stacks
• Contribute towards troubleshooting in a fast-paced environment and implement solutions
• Write, test, and integrate monitoring solutions with APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications
• Work closely with system administrators to understand and fine-tune Linux based trading environments using tools provided by the latest Linux distributions
• Work closely with Cloud SREs to operate our distributed systems landscape
• Work on our efforts to fully automate our infrastructure and application management
• Build, use, and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Conduct user acceptance testing across the internal application stacks and gain a deep understanding on how traders and supporting teams utilize our software
• Provide technical requirements to the development process to continuously improve the operational effectiveness of our applications
• Advance your Python or other scripting skills by working together with trading desks to identify and implement ways to automate complex workflows

Preferred Qualifications

• Basic knowledge and interest in the field of networking is advantageous
• Knowledge of technologies such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Terraform, GCP is a plus

Benefits

• Strong sense of teamwork and willingness to learn new skills
• Good communication skills
• Good decision making and problem solving skills