N P Associates

DevOps Cloud Engineer / Linux Systems Administrator - Working in a vibrant and fast-moving financial environment utilizing cutting edge technology with an excellent package and benefits. Candidates must come from a Linux Systems Administrators Background (as opposed to Software Engineering) and have recent Linux Administration experience and some previous Financial/Banking experience. Job Overview The position is for a Senior Cloud and DevOPS Engineer with STRONG Linux Systems Administration background to join a team maintaining existing and building new infrastructure, sharing knowledge and best practices. This is an incredibly varied role, covering all aspects of automation and management of low latency trading platforms both on premise and cloud as well as supporting clients with their implementation of The Company's Technology solutions. The successful candidate will be a key player within a small but highly technical infrastructure team. Responsibilities and Duties Develop and deliver automated multi-account global cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code (Terraform). Enhance the automation of current processes both cloud and on-premise by using Scripting languages such as Ansible, Python and other automation tools. Work with the development team to take over and productionise new technologies and workflows. Collaborate with DevOps, development and infrastructure teams around architectural design and cloud best practices. Provide support to development and ops teams; this includes, build Servers, virtual environments and CI/CD pipelines. Assist the Linux team with deployment and maintenance of software/operating system/hardware using systems and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform). Systems capacity planning; creating and maintaining a scalable system for Dev, QA, Test and Production. Prepare and maintain up to date documentation. Required Skills/Experience 5+ years' experience architecting, building, and operating systems on multi-account AWS and GCP platforms. 5+ years DevOps - Strong CI/CD Pipelines, Deployment Strategies, Monitoring, automation. Experience with OpenShift / Kubernetes Strong Linux system administration (RedHat/CentOS or similar). 5+ years' experience with automation languages such as Python, bash, Ansible and Terraform. Experience with Build, Release and Version Control Systems such as Git, GitLab etc. Extensive proven experience with AWS network and security implementations and management. Experience administering and maintaining systems monitoring/alerting technologies (CloudWatch, Splunk, Nagios, Rapid7, Grafana etc.). Proven experience with containerisation - Docker/Kubernetes/ECS/ECR, etc., Database administration - MySQL, QuestDB, Elasticsearch. Experience with multiple cloud providers AWS and GCP - Azure a bonus. Demonstrate strong verbal and written communication skills. Competitive salary in the £110/130k range + Bonus + Benefits

Senior Software Engineer / Principal Software Engineer- C++, Python - Financial / Banking. Candidates will have a minimum 8+ years C++ experience and excellent knowledge of Python -coming from a Financial / Banking background with knowledge of Equities, Futures & Options and Fixed Income and Exchange Connectivity. Job Overview You will work with the Product, Infrastructure and QA teams, to produce high performance, low latency and highly reliable code. Your goal will be to develop software which handle large amount of TPS to drive a highly efficient technology used by several markets around the world. To be successful in this role as a Principal Software Engineer - C++, you will be a proponent of agile methodology and modern software best practices. You can produce detailed technical work in OOP and work with other members of the Development team to produce code of high-quality standards. Ideally, you should have worked in critical systems development in the past. Responsibilities and Duties • Codes, tests, integrates, and documents software. • Provides technical leadership to more junior employees and other teams. • Apply principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to the development of complex products. • Participate as a Subject Matter Expert in internal review of software components and systems. • Work on the hardest technical problems facing the company, often these problems are unusually complex and require the utmost creativity and innovation. • Apply and champion the appropriate standards, processes, procedures, and tools throughout the system development life cycle to support the generation of technical engineering products. • Keep abreast of technology trends and champion new ideas and process improvements. Required Skills/Experience • 8+ years development experience in C++ 11 and Boost creating performant, scalable applications. • 6+ years of experience in networking (UDP, Multicasting, TCP, etc ), messaging, and algorithms. • 6+ years of experience on Linux systems. • Good understanding of modern development best practices and methodologies • Python, including Pytest. • Knowledge of capital markets exchange connectivity on stocks (fixed income and derivatives is a plus), including exchange protocols such as FIX and SBE. • Most importantly, a drive to solve complex technological and trading challenges with a great team of talented developers. • Comfortable using Agile methodology, including continuous integration, sprints, Jira and the relevant processes and workflow. • Some understanding and usage of cloud technology is a plus but not mandatory. Candidates may be considered either as a Senior or Principal Software Engineer depending upon experience / skills with a salary range, reflective of skills between £100 / £140

Senior C# and API Developer - Financial / Banking A well established, dynamic and fast growing FX Brokerage is looking for an experienced C# Developer to join their small team building in-house products. ABOUT THE ROLE: You'll be building our own in-house system enabling us to move away from 3rd party vendors, this will be across several streams of the business and will encompassing trade execution, trade pricing, CRM, settlement and regulatory reporting. REQUIRED SKILLS: Demonstrable experience working as a Senior C# developer Strong interpersonal skills facilitating constructive interactions with business stakeholders Advanced knowledge of distributed, asynchronous event-driven systems Microsoft Web APIs and WCF RESTful API's in the context of interacting with third party providers and connectors, for example PSD2 open banking API's. Endpoint security best practice Writing performant, scalable and secure code ASP on top of MVVM/MVC Up to date knowledge of continuous integration methodologies, the creation of build servers and agents plus the full deployment process end to end In depth knowledge of repository management, version control, branching and merging - ideally with GIT. Microsoft SQL Server database administration, schema creation and optimisation, referential integrity, stored procedures and functions. Aptitude for problem solving as well as analytical and strategic thinking Technical document production, for example for API's Nice to have: Cloud (AWS), Angular, FIX protocol, SWIFT, PSD2, experience of a payments processing system facilitating cross-border transactions Not essential but any previous Financial / Banking or experience working on other Real Time Messaging / Low Latency Systems would be highly beneficial although this is a superb opportunity for someone with "The Right" technical skills to gain some invaluable Financial experience.

Python Developer - Intermediate - 1-3 years' experience You will be working with a Technology Driven Investment Managers who combine data, research, technology and trading expertise to achieve high quality returns for investors with an excellent base salary and unrivalled bonus potential. Candidates must have the core 1+ Years Python Development and in exchange you will gain some invaluable Financial / Quantitative Trading experience. About The Role A key member of the development team, building and enhancing key components A role with the potential to gain exposure to many aspects of electronic and algorithmic trading, back testing, and data management systems Working with traders and quants to roll-out, support and run strategies Building and supporting new quantitative trading framework software Designing clean architecture and leveraging state of the art tools and components Bringing new ideas and experimenting with new technologies Skills Required Advanced skills in one or several programming languages Strong Python skills Very high standards in code quality and good development practices Knowledge of real-time systems, high performance computing and quantitative applications an advantage Strong team-player Experience working within a mature CI/CD process, DevOps experience Strong communication skills Any C++ or C# experience would be beneficial Ideal candidates will have a core interest in the Financial Markets / Banking … with any Futures & Options experience highly beneficial and have a Master's Degree or PhD in Finance, Technology, Science, Maths or Engineering. An initial salary guide is between £35 - £80k although this may be extended for "the right" candidate + Benefits and Excellent Bonus potential - The role can be based either in London or Paris with a 50/50 split between office based and remote working.