Equity IT

Production Support Engineer

Equity IT
onsite mid full-time $100,000 to $175,000 New York, New York, United States of America
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First indexed 18 Apr 2026

Description

The Production Support Engineer role is a hands-on, business-facing position that requires understanding how applications support the business, investigating functional and data-related issues, and communicating clearly with users under pressure.

The Core Technology Production Support team supports a suite of business-critical financial applications used by Middle Office, Operations, Treasury, and Trading. These platforms are central to the firm's PnL, risk, cash, trade processing, and regulatory reporting workflows.

Principal Responsibilities:

  • End to end ownership of the production environment
  • Infrastructure management
  • Release planning and deployment
  • Incident and problem management, including root cause analysis
  • Capacity Planning / BCP Testing
  • Build strong relationships with development and end-users/clients
  • Foster the DevOps culture
  • Focus on client service and delivery
  • Become the go-to person for your area of responsibility
  • Build subject matter expertise
  • Create and maintain high quality documentation and runbooks
  • Cross train other Support team members

Qualifications/Skills Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field.
  • Minimum 2+ years’ experience supporting an enterprise environment
  • Must have previous experience supporting business facing applications
  • Strong scripting skills in one of the following: Python (preferred), PowerShell, Perl, etc.
  • Excellent SQL skills and knowledge of various database systems
  • Must be able to run and understand complex queries
  • Ability to support both Windows and Unix/Linux environments

Preferred Skills:

  • Experience working in a trading environment
  • Exposure to the following:
  • CI/CD (Jenkins/Octopus/Artifactory)
  • Metrics/KPIs (Datadog/Influx/Tableau)
  • Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • AI (MCP/Agents)

The estimated base salary range for this position is $100,000 to $175,000, which is specific to New York and may change in the future.

This listing is enriched and indexed by YubHub. To apply, use the employer's original posting: https://mlp.eightfold.ai/careers/job/755943534669