Position Overview

Citi, the leading global financial services company, has some 200 million customer accounts and does business in more than 100 countries, providing consumers, corporations, governments and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, and wealth management. Additional information may be found at www.citigroup.com or www.citi.com.

FX Technology is focused on delivering IT solutions to the FX Sales & Trading business. We have around 400 people with the core of our development effort based in the financial hubs of London, New York and Singapore where we face off directly to the trading desks. Our core strength is providing the technical expertise and software development skills that directly affect the ability of our business to generate revenue and several of our client facing applications such as Citi FX Velocity and FX Click are leaders in their respective markets. We are committed to hiring the brightest and best technical experts and in return can offer roles with direct business interaction on projects from electronic and algorithmic trading to grid based computation of real-time risk metrics.

The FX eTrading Technology team is looking for a Mid-level Infrastructure Engineer based in Chennai, India to work within the FX Technology group focusing on the hardware, application infrastructure, connectivity, middleware considerations of our FX platforms. The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, maintaining and supporting the application infrastructure used by FX eTrading. The candidate will have experience of working in a fast-paced environment and managing the design, build, deployment, support of eTrading applications in all environments.
The candidate will report into the FX Infrastructure Lead located in the UK and interact with development teams as well as our business and technology teams located across the globe.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical guidance and expertise in the areas of Linux, server hardware, network connectivity, performance engineering, web middleware, messaging middleware for all FX applications.
• Liaise with multiple application teams and infrastructure teams to translate application requirements into an infrastructure design and then track the deployment of the agreed solutions.
• Performance engineering: measure, identify opportunities to improve performance and efficiency through hardware tuning, topology changes, application design. 
• Some L3 Support for our FX eTrading platforms in particular for OS/connectivity/middleware issues.
• Server hardware design and purchase.
• Server estate management: track servers, their usage and EOVS status.
• Some project management duties on small-scale projects.
• Input into application releases that have dependencies on infrastructure changes.
• Work in concert with the business, development teams and Production Support to investigate issues and prevent production defects.
• Work in collaboration with DevOps Engineers to support DevOps initiatives.
• As part of a team of Infrastructure engineers, provide guidance to other members.

Requirements

Experience / Background

• Experience of working in a Development and/or Systems Engineering role at the enterprise-level
• Expertise in at least two of these areas: Linux, TCP/IP Networking, Low-latency Performance Engineering, Messaging Middleware, Firewalls, Server hardware
• Strong interest and technical focus on server infrastructure: hardware, networks, operating systems, middleware
• Experience in at least one of the following programming languages: Java, C++, .NET with successful delivery to a Production system
• Experience with Distributed Systems: Scaling, Fault-Tolerance, Load-Balancing, Networking, Security, etc.
• Experience in at least one of the following scripting languages: Bash/Bourne Shell, Python, Perl

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Experience with high-volume low-latency highly available IT systems, understanding of their architecture and SLAs
• Any hands-on experience with Linux administration
• Any general infrastructure knowledge or hands-on skills in the areas of Message-Oriented Middleware (Solace, Tibco EMS, Tibco Rendezvous, Aeron) and Networks
• The candidate should show a clear understanding of the banking environment and have a strong interest in financial markets.

Personal Characteristics

• Open-minded team player, good at building networks and leveraging resources
• High attention to detail
• Willing to take ownership of initiatives and drive them to completion
• Proactive, and able to work independently
• Excellent analytical skills
• Results-oriented and client-focused
• Ability to work under pressure, prioritize work and well organized
   

Skills Required

• Strong Unix / Linux skills
• Solid knowledge of basic networking concepts.
• Messaging Middleware technologies: Solace, TIBCO Rendezvous, TIBCO EMS, TIBCO FTL, Aeron
• At least one programming language: Java (preferred), C++ or .NET
• Shell scripting and Python/Perl/Ruby/Groovy scripting

In addition, the following would be an advantage:

• Application server technologies: Tomcat, Apache, Weblogic
• SSL/TLS cryptographic protocols
• Any UI development of custom monitoring or management tools
• ServiceNow integration/APIs
• General knowledge, interest and skills around infrastructure technologies (Linux, Networks, Storage…)

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Job Family Group:

Technology

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Job Family:

Applications Development

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Time Type:

Full time

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Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

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Other Relevant Skills

SRE Observability.

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