Performance Engineer - Markets (Iress/Wallstreet/Murex)

THE COMPANY

Our client is one of Australia's leading and largest Financial Services Organizations that has expanded its operations beyond the Australian shores. The organization has a large range of financial offerings to both public and private clients across the retail, corporate and institutional banking areas. They have a very large technical footprint that combines a dynamic range of technologies in an ultimately complex landscape. Due to an expanding remit of this teams service offering to the bank they require a Performance Engineer with expertise on Real Time, low latency trading systems across a broad range of vendor systems like: IRESS, WallStreet Systems, Murex, GBST Shares etc.

THE TEAM

The performance team has a very large remit, to evaluate and improve bank wide systems with a focus on system high availability, performance, capacity and reliability. This team has been organically grown over the last 3 years and now, due to their excellent success record of improvements, they have been given a wider remit and larger projects. This senior role will sit within

the Performance Architecture sub-team and will be responsible for assessing and analysing all project initiatives (change) in the pipeline across the bank, understanding each individually as well relationships between them all once implemented (these may not be obvious) so as to pre-empt any performance, resilience, high availability and capacity (demand management) issues.

THE ROLE

This is a Senior Infrastructure/Operations aligned role with an emphasis on a wide range of in-house developed and vendor based Trading/Order Management Systems across all asset classes and related products (IRESS, WallStreet Systems, Murex, GBST Shares).

The ideal profile for this role would be an Infrastructure/Operations Engineer with financial markets (Real Time, low latency systems) knowledge and a demonstrated understanding of performance and high availability. Whatever the make-up of your career profile you will have a background working with mission critical systems and a demonstrated understanding of how the application layer relates to networking and infrastructure layers.

SKILLS REQUIRED:

- Expertise in Trading Systems/OMS Infrastructure and Operations.
- Experience with DevOps (Continuous Integration) concepts (highly desirable).
- A Strong Holistic Technical Background spanning multiple disciplines eg Development, Networks, Infrastructure (Servers, Databases) and an understanding of how they all relate.
- Expertise across: System Performance, Resilience, High Availability and Capacity (Demand Management).
- Experience working with vendor trading systems eg IRESS, WallStreet Systems, Murex.
- Experience providing performance, capacity assessment and deployment risks using key performance indicators.
- Experience contributing to the design of robust solutions to future-proof complex technology systems.
- Experience evaluating and analysing large enterprise wide project initiatives and systems across multiple technologies and business units.
- Identify non-functional risks commensurate with project design and manage to or hand over for closure.
- Strong analytical and communication skills; a passion and drive for technical excellence.

KEYWORDS: Trading Systems, Applications, Development, Operations, DevOps, Networks, Infrastructure, Servers, Databases, Performance, Resilience, High Availability, Capacity, Demand Management, Enterprise Wide, Projects, eCommerce, Tuning, Optimization, Solution.

If this position interests you, please submit your resume via the 'Apply Now' button or email. Or for further information please contact DANIEL quoting reference TRADE_FASTER.

Unfortunately this opportunity does not offer visa sponsorship so please only apply if you already have full working rights for Australia.

ALL COMMUNICATIONS WILL BE TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL AND THE MORE WE KNOW ABOUT YOU THE BETTER WE CAN HELP YOU.

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