Job Listing: Software Engineer - Production Support

A large client of TEKsystems, a leader in the financial services arena, is seeking a Production Support Engineer for a contract-to-hire position.

This person will provide core technical support for a number of large, distributed financial trading systems. Candidates must have the willingness to do support, process automation, and some aspects of support tool development.

Responsibilities:
- Technical support for investment banking trading applications
- Provide technical troubleshooting, configuration and deployment for both the applications and their underlying infrastructure
- Partner with India support teams to support users across the globe
- Automate and streamline support processes

TECHNICAL SKILLS / EXPERIENCE:

Must Have:
- Experience with hands-on support of trading systems based on a service-oriented architecture and J2EE framework (2 years minimum)
- UNIX admin and/or scripting (2 years minimum)
- Strong Perl background (minimum 2 years intense usage)
- Wintel admin (2 years minimum)
- Application server – Weblogic, Borland Enterprise (setting up, integration, J2EE deployment, and managing is strongly desired)
- XML-based system integration
- JMS and Sybase (desired)

Nice-to-Have:
- Java/OO programming (minimum 1 year Java, familiarity with a structured development environment strongly desired)
- Cross-platform OS/infrastructure experience (preferred)
- Understanding of networking protocols, TCP/IP (nice to have)
- Strong background in C and/or C++ (minimum 2 years intense usage)

Business knowledge:
- Understand Interest rates and derivatives risk management and trading strategies (strong plus)
- Experience in a large financial institution (strong plus)

Other:
- Must to be able to communicate crisply and clearly both from a verbal and written perspective
- Must have strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent work ethic – willing to be on-call nights/weekend
- Must be able to work autonomously and independently solve problems when needed

Required Skills for Software Engineer - Production Support Job:

About TEKsystems:

Join TEKsystems® and get your career on the fast track. As the leading technology staffing and services firm, we are passionate about deploying high-caliber IT and communications expertise. To satisfy our constant need for expertise, we actively seek talented Technical Professionals with all levels of information technology and communications skills. TEKsystems knows that every professional has different needs, so we'll work together to determine a suitable benefits package. We offer options to our Technical Professionals that could include: a health plan, 401k, provisions for vacation and holiday pay, and technical and professional training. With a foundation as the nation's largest IT staffing firm, we've become a billion-dollar services company by blending superior client service with an unrivaled ability to source and manage talent to precise specifications, resulting in successful technology executions. Allegis Group and its subsidiaries are equal opportunity employers. M/F/D/V