Position: Research Engineer (Cyprus)
Company: Exness
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

Exness, a leading foreign exchange broker in the financial services field, is looking to hire.

Role and Goal

We are IT Infrastructure Unit at Exness, together with Product Teams contribute to evolution and operate Exness products for our clients all over the world.
Excellence of trading data and algorithms is the core of our business, that's why we constantly strive to improve our market data and to shorten its path to the clients.

The Research Engineer plays an important role in that process. He/she works closely with key members of the Trading Research Team on one side and IT Infrastructure on another.

This is a highly collaborative position whose ultimate goal is to drive experiments and research with the team of professional analysts and programmers to deliver low and ultra-low latency (ULL) solutions for trading. In our work we extensively use on-premise and cloud (AWS) platforms and may embrace any other if they will help to achieve better results.

Research Engineer reports to the System Engineers Team Lead in the IT Infrastructure unit based in Cyprus.


Responsibilities:

Work directly with the Trading and Infrastructure units to drive pricing and trading solutions development and improvement (cross-functional team size is ~4-6 people)
Act as a single point of contact for general IT questions or assistance
Intelligently automate while maintaining firm human control
Designs and implements infrastructure and solution architecture for services working with exchanges and providers (like pricing models, ticks proxies, aggregators)
The work implies a “lab” atmosphere at large extent: relatively short cycles or multiple PoCs of different product options, then - pilot run for successful ones, then - move to production for successful pilots. First (PoC) cycles mainly based on manual work, going towards production degree of automation would increase
Design and maintain CI/CD for the solutions developed
When design phase is completed and solution goes to production, ensuring its smooth transition to operations, providing documentation and tools for management and monitoring
Provide automation tools, which would simplify work of developers

Requirements:

At least 5 years of experience in IT solution design and operations (that could be solution architecture, DevOps, automation engineer)
Ability to quickly analyse a problem having limited data. Make hypotheses and test them
Hands-on experience with any of AWS solutions
High-level knowledge about a broad range of platforms and technologies to be able to quickly select one needed for a specific task and further elaborate and test it (for example: databases, queues, storages, networks, logging, PaaS services: AWS Lambda, Athena, etc.)
Data analysis and data processing experience
Hands-on experience with service monitoring
Administration of Linux and Windows systems
Any scripting languages (Powershell, Bash, Python, etc.) and / or programming basics
Containerization (Docker) and orchestration (K8S or Nomad)
English language (Intermediate or higher)
Would be a plus

AWS Solution Architect / AWS SysOps certification
Any other industry certification
Latency optimized hardware (networks, servers, memory, storage). Like Exegy XERO, Myricom, etc.
Hands-on experience in design and operations of L2-3 networks based on Cisco or any other major vendors
High load
Familiarity with FIX protocol
Security foundations
 
Compensation package:

For remote employees :

Medical insurance for employees.
Compensation for sports activities.
Trip to Cyprus office to get to know your Team (once a year).
 
For employees who want relocate:

Outstanding relocation package to Cyprus.
New branded corporate Mini Cooper Countryman S for the employee and the family.
Medical insurance for employees and immediate family members.
Company fitness center for employees and their spouses.
Parking near the office or a bus pass.
Kindergarten/school compensation program.
The best view of the sea from our own roof bar.
We support the relocation of our candidates by providing visa and migration processing and do our best to help them to be successful in the company.