Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008.  Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

The Trade Application Support engineer is a key member of the operations and investment teams supporting full trade lifecycle trade processes, including but not limited to: startup, live trading system monitoring and triage, outages, data cleanliness, reporting, and trade analysis functions. This person will work closely with the portfolio managers, software/network/systems engineers, and various operations teams within Verition. The candidate is required to have a strong technical background in Linux environment, experience in front and back-office trade support, attention to detail, ability to multitask with changing requirements, and urgency to tackle live production issues.

Responsibilities:

• Live trade lifecycle monitoring and management with attention to follow up tasks and postmortems
• Post trade processing and resolving trade settlement issues in a timely manner
• System integration with development teams and external counterparties
• Software Deployment, Client Reporting Support, Investment and Operational Projects as needed
• Ownership of production footprint, e.g. identify system improvements, automate daily tasks, document existing and new workflows

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university
• Hands on experience with low latency market data and order management systems, internal or third party
• Working knowledge of FIX trading protocol
• Technical proficiency with Python, Linux, SQL, Excel, AWS, ability to debug scripts and code
• DevOps experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Docker is a plus
• Strong analytical and detail-oriented aptitude; a high degree of accuracy is required
• Excellent communication and organizational skills with friendly demeanor
• Ability to manage time effectively, set priorities and meet deadlines, mentorship of junior members

Nice to Have:

• Heightened awareness for production alerts and adhere to SLA for remediation
• Experience in low latency trading platforms with integration utilizing FPGA's, microwave networks, multicast broadcast and point-to-point connections
• Experience with New Relic/Zabbix/PagerDuty and application monitoring frameworks
• Experience with Redwood RunMyJob and familiarity with Cron, or similar job scheduling frameworks
• Ability to troubleshoot network, authentication, and file transfer issues
• Familiar with AWS STS and S3, navigation on AWS console or equivalent cloud service
• Ability to work independently and automate daily tasks as much as possible in Bash and Python