Dear Ronald,
My name is Sunitha and I'm an IT Recruiter at Axelon Services Corporation. We have your resume on file and I thought you may be interested in an opportunity we currently have available for a Sr. Application Support with a Major Financial Firm Located in Jersey City, NJ.
If you do not feel like you are a good fit, but you know someone who may be looking for position like this, please feel free to forward this email onto them. I also encourage you to visit our website at www.axelon.com for all of our job openings.
“This role is currently work-from-home and will move to the office environment after the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted.”
Job id-11706428
12 Months Contract on W2
No third Parties**
Prime Brokerage US Client team is part of a global team situated in various locations: New York/New Jersey, Montreal, Paris, Lisbon, Mumbai and Hong Kong. The prime brokerage is part of Global Market Corporate Investment department which is one the largest and the most profitable investment bank in the Euro zone. Client team is concerned with the production support and release of IT solutions providing discreet functionality to both Front office and middle office teams. The IT systems are used globally with Client team providing support to FO team mainly based in New York. We also have two other FO teams based in London and Hong Kong.
The candidate will help implementing and supporting Inventory Management System in North America. The application will mainly aggregate the internal ) and external (street) availability of securities. It will also leverage the security inventory by optimizing the pricing and the management of the available quantity.
Responsibilities:
Technology used by IMS in prod (would be better if the contractor is familiar with) / technical skills required :
Infra – Linux RedHat / basic skills on shell/batch scripting for process and resources monitoring
Infra - Oracle Database / basic sql authentication/executing remote script from a sever (sqlplus tool)
MDW – Apache Tomcat / Configuration and understanding of the Apache architecture
MDW – Java / Being a little familiar with java development kit JDK (for analysis)
MDW – Kafka / List/create/delete topics on a cluster, manipulate offset/ empty the content of specific topic
MDW – MQ, CFT / basic knowledge, raise request to infra.
Network, Firewall, DNS / basic knowledge, raise request to open flow.
Loadbalancing - F5, AVI / basic knowledge, raise request to infra.
Tools – Geneos / configure alert + monitoring
Tools – Autosys / create job + Monitoring jobs
We are also implementing DevOps tools (Ansible, Jenkins... ) and ELK solution (Elasticsearch Logstash Kibana) for monitoring.
- Process:
- The role is to provide 1st and 2nd line functional support to users
- Work closely with the trading desk to understand requirements and either implement tactical solutions or raise the business requirements to developers
- Leverage ServiceNow to manage incidents and problems. It will also require working closely with all the support teams and development teams across all regions
- Ensure root cause analysis is undertaken for all incidents
- Improve monitoring systems and create scripts to automate the day-to-day support activities
- Users access rights and segregation of duties support
- Monitor:
- Review of daily break reconciliations
- Start of day and intraday checks
- Review the releases which are planned and perform the post release checks
- The team is responsible for monitoring the system availability, proactively preventing system problems, and responding to system incidents when they occur. Client is also responsible for problem analysis, managing system change and ensuring minimal impact to the end users
- College graduate with background in IT and Finance
- 5 years of working experience
- Experience working with SQL & Unix/Linux
- Working knowledge of securities lending and borrowing
- Basic knowledge of short sales and locates
- Basic understanding of transactions booking, positions and inventory management
- Understanding of financial security identifiers (ISIN, Cusip, Sedol, BBG ID, RIC, etc.)
- Understanding of user access management and permissions (users , groups, ACLs
- Basic knowledge of US Domestic settlement (DTC/Bony) and international settlement (SWIFT)
- Prior experience using ServiceNow and Jira tools
- ITIL V3 Foundation Certification
If you are qualified and interested in pursuing this opportunity, please call me at (212) 488-5553 ASAP. You may also send me an e-mail, if you do respond via e-mail please include a daytime phone number so I can reach you. In considering candidates, time is of the essence, so please respond ASAP.
Note: Please allow me to reiterate that I chose to contact you either because your resume had been posted to one of the internet job sites to which we subscribe, or you had previously submitted your resume to Axelon. I assumed that you are either looking for a new employment opportunity, or you are interested in investigating the current job market.
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Thank you,
Sunitha Mundrathi
Recruiter
Axelon Services Corporation
44 Wall Street 18th Floor
New York, NY 10005
Phone: (212) 488-5553
Sunitha.mundrathi@axelon.com
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