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.