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 pre and post trade processes, compliance reporting and trade analysis functions. This person will work closely with the portfolio managers and the various mid to back office teams within Verition. The candidate is required to have strong technical background in Linux environment, attention to detail and ability to multitask with changing requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Trade lifecycle monitoring and management
- Post trade processing and resolving trade settlement issues in a timely manner
- System integration with development team and counterparties
- Client Reporting Support
- Investment and Operational Projects as needed
- Identify workflow/system improvements and automate daily tasks
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university
- A friendly professional demeanor and ability to excel in a team oriented environment
- Working knowledge of FIX trading protocol
- Technical proficiency with Python, Linux, SQL, Excel, AWS
- DevOps experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Git, Bitbucket, Dockers is a plus
- Strong analytical and detail-oriented aptitude; a high degree of accuracy is required
- Excellent communication and organizational skills
- Ability to manage time effectively, set priorities and meet deadline
Nice to Have:
- Heightened awareness for production alerts and adhere to SLA for remediation
- Experience with New Relic/Zabbix/PagerDuty and application monitoring frameworks
- Experience with Redwood RunMyJob and familiarity with Cron, or similar job scheduling frameworks
- Familiar with FTP/SFTP/LFTP, ability to troubleshoot connection issues related to network and authentication
- Familiar with AWS STS and S3, navigation on AWS console
- Proficient in Linux/Bash/Python/SQL, able to debug scripts and python code
- Ability to work independently and automate daily tasks as much as possible in bash and python
