SRE / System Engineer - Budapest, Hungary

SRE Associate / System Engineer

Description

The Market Data Site Reliability and Engineering team maintains systems and applications that disseminate market and internally generated data throughout the firm. The focus is on maintaining highly available systems that can process and distribute large quantities of data with very low latency. These systems carry real-time data such as stock prices, index values, option prices, Fixed Income, and FX instruments.

The role involves not only maintaining the real-time data distribution platforms but also referential, historical, time-series data, and firm contributions. Peak message rates can exceed 10 million per second at microsecond precision, with daily volumes exceeding 3 billion updates on any given day and market.

This position is within the Market Data Distribution Platform Integration and Engineering role. The person will be part of a global team of engineering-level resources who will be responsible for much of the day-to-day running of the market data plant, including the production management of the software developed by the global development teams.

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Typical Activities

• Design and configuration of a global market data distribution system with an optimal latency profile.
• Periodical review of plant capacity and planning for market volatility.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve plant stability and security.
• Work with global market data users to scope and integrate varied client requirements into the production distribution plant.
• Collaborate with clients and development teams to meet market data feed migration and continuously growing regulatory requirements.
• Proactively explore productivity improvements for day-to-day integration work.
• Work closely with development to test and quality assure new releases.
• Conduct timely hygiene activities such as OS upgrades, security enhancements, and software upgrades.

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Skills Required

• UNIX/Linux operating systems: Candidates should understand UNIX concepts in order to perform resource monitoring and be able to tune operating system parameters according to application requirements.
• UNIX/Linux scripting: Candidates need to be proficient in navigating UNIX servers, have good knowledge of the majority of operational functions in UNIX, and be able to read, write, and maintain UNIX shell scripts.
• Programming languages: Candidates should have some exposure to Python as a scripting language as a minimum. The deeper the knowledge, the better. Java, C++, and Perl will be a plus.
• Networking (e.g., TCP/IP): Additional technical skill on the networking side; understand the concepts of TCP/IP and UDP connectivity and data transfer 

  What you’ll get:

  • In-depth interactive training. Our training is created and delivered by industry experts who know your field inside out.
  • 24 month COE (Contract of Employment) 
  • A generous graduate salary to reflect your progress -  0-12 month – 7 500 000 HUF/yearly/gross, 13-24 month – 8 812 500 HUF/yearly/gross.
  • A flexible benefit package. 
  • Ongoing training, support and social events throughout your placement.
  • An opportunity to kickstart your career and gain valuable experience in an attractive and exciting industry.