DevOps Engineer

Sopra Steria is a listed European technology leader specializing in Consulting, Digital Services, and Software. With over 51,000 employees worldwide across Europe, North America and Asia, the Group supports organizations in driving their digital transformation and delivering sustainable business value.

Our Hong Kong entity operates alongside Singapore to deliver Infrastructure, Cloud and Cybersecurity services to clients across the Asia Pacific region.

For this opportunity, we are looking for a DevOps Engineer to assist one of our clients in the banking industry – a leading global investment bank.

Responsibilities:

Strategists develop and implement efficient automated tools to translate quant traders’ strategies into orders. They also design specific features to help traders monitor and analyze the behavior of strategies in production, and ensure adequate monitoring of risks and positions.

• Proactively manage the production platform by

• leveraging software engineering to eliminate operational work via automation
• optimizing system architecture to maintain operational efficiency
• conducting thorough but blameless post-mortems to help guide the evolution of the platform

• Develop and maintain an expansive library of automatons and alpha models
• Develop and maintain monitoring and production tools used in the trading platform
• Develop and maintain the simulation tools and back testing environment used to test and validate strategies
• Contribute to the enforcement of adequate risk filters for each automaton to prevent abnormal behaviour.
• Organize and monitor the orderly production of automations during trading hours.
• Monitor, investigate, and improve performances of trading engines. ·
• Contribute to the research and design of optimal setup for each set of strategies.
• Coordinate and test infrastructure changes, as implemented by the Group IT and Production teams.
• Make sure all developments satisfy local regulations.

• Ability to quickly resolve issues under pressure
• Strong technical & problem solving (troubleshooting) skills
• Excellent oral communication skills
• Familiarity with C++/Python programming language and relevant toolkits

Relevant Skills:

• BS in Computer Science or a related technical field that involves programming, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience in supporting applications in a Linux/Unix environment

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  Work-life balance: Hybrid working mode and Work-from-Abroad benefits, 18 days of Annual leave