Application Support Specialist - Equity Derivatives

You will be supporting the Sophis application for the equity derivatives business, a critical application used for life cycle management of trades from trade feed to PnL and risk management and settlement. Your responsibilities will include: Quickly addressing issues pertaining to front office, middle office, and back office that impact the business' ability to perform daily functions Driving improved stability and higher quality of data delivered to front office, middle office, and back office Contributing to and improving the configuration of the monitoring platform ITRS, while actioning triggered events Documenting new issues that occur and maintaining/enhancing existing documentation to ensure consistent steps performed for known issues Coordinating between several groups to remediate issues (Support, Development, Analytics, Quants) Investigating pricing failures and resolving issues utilizing various skills including SQL, Unix, Windows Developing scripts to automate processes using Powershell and other scripting languages Engaging in platform-related projects which include vulnerability remediation, business continuity practice, and automation of day-to-day tasks Performing change and release practices to deploy proprietary and vendor-based software Weekend checkouts on rotation will be required to ensure a stable start of the week Rotation of shift schedules might require late shifts (10-7 PM EST) To succeed in this role, you will need: 3+ years of experience supporting applications on equity derivatives or similar business SQL language (3 years, Oracle preferred) Python scripting experience (1-2 years) Monitoring experience of high-availability trading applications, batch processing, or similar Job Scheduler experience (i.e., BMC Control-M, Autosys, Cron, etc.) Windows Server (3 years) Linux experience (3 years) Nice-to-have skills include: ITRS Geneos Monitoring Software Experience supporting risk management and analytics applications/infrastructure Kubernetes/Docker experience GRID/Datasynapse Databricks Kafka In terms of benefits, you can expect: A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team Opportunities to do challenging work Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities Job Data by YubHub .