Ops Engineer | Long-Term Project | Financial Enterprise

We are seeking an ops engineer to join our dynamic team and environemnt who can play an instrumental role in ensuring the relaibility and efficiency of our applications - your technical skills and financial knowledge will be key in helping us achieve our goal! Whether you start your day in our office garden, fro the comforts of your own home, your contribitions will be significant.

Your Daily Responsibilities:

• Incident and Problem Management: Conduct root cause analysis to identify the underlying cause of failures and implement permanent solutions. This involves direct communication with users (Traders, Credit/Market Risk Managers) across various locations including Amsterdam, London, Brussels, New York, and Singapore.
• Level-2 Support: Provide second-level support for deploying and operating applications/stacks in production, which includes participating in an on-call rotation.
• Automation: Identify opportunities to automate testing of features, performance, security, and deployment processes. This is a crucial responsibility for Operations Engineers.
• Data Improvement: Reconfigure and optimize new and existing products, reports, and processes.
• Technical Understanding: Comprehend the full technology stack of the application and its role in the overall system.
• Tooling and Scripting: Develop, improve, and maintain tools and scripts to automate repetitive or error-prone tasks, utilizing appropriate event alerts.
• Functional Testing and Change Management: Perform functional testing and manage changes to ensure safe transitions from test to acceptance and production environments.
• Travel: Occasional travel abroad, specifically to Brussels.

What You'll Bring to the Team:

• Experience:
  • Financial knowledge of interest rate and FX derivatives valuation and market risk modelling (eg, Greeks and VaR).
  • Experience in functional incident management for Front Office pricing applications within the Financial Markets domain.
  • Proficiency in supporting end users, enriching Back End databases with new products, reports, and scheduled tasks.

Technical Skills and Knowledge:

• Mandatory:

  • Advanced knowledge of MS SQL Server and Transact-SQL.
  • Deep understanding of interest rate derivatives valuation.
  • Customer-focused with a strong inclination towards identifying and resolving root causes of incidents to enhance customer experience.
  • Familiarity with tools like ServiceNow, Confluence, and Fortify.
  • Strong team player with cross-functional capabilities, comfortable interacting with people at all levels in a multicultural environment.
  • Proactive and responsive to others' needs.

• Nice to Have:

  • Experience or familiarity with IT risk (SOx, vulnerability management) and security concepts (protocols, certificates, etc.).
  • Proficiency in English (advanced level).
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree with a strong analytical background in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering, or a related field.

About Levy Professionals

Since 2000 we provide professional solutions to organizations ranging from tech start-ups to global players. From our offices in Amsterdam and London we have built an international and local network of skilled employed professionals and contractors fuelled by our passion for connecting skills with projects. Over the years we have fulfilled over 1700 requirements and nowadays we consistently have 250+ professionals recruited and relocated from 14 countries allocated to various projects. Our strength is the way that we see and treat people. This will always be a key factor in our strategy for many years to come.