Graduate Trading Ops/DevOps Engineer

Do you want to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment where your ideas make a difference? Join Flow Traders as a Graduate Trading Operations Engineer at our headquarters in Amsterdam!

Flow Traders is looking for a Graduate Trading Operations Engineer to join our growing Trading Operations team in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. If you aim high, the sky is the limit.

As part of our Trading Operations team, you will work within our technology landscape to safeguard the performance and stability of our proprietary trading systems and the related hardware. In this role, you will act as an SRE, Operations Engineer, and Developer — taking ownership of technical issues and contributing directly to the company’s performance. You will collaborate closely with teams across the business to gain a well-rounded understanding of how our trading applications function and evolve.

What you will do

• Gain expertise in our latency-sensitive trading application stacks, contribute to troubleshooting in a fast-paced environment, and implement solutions
• Write, test, and integrate monitoring tools using APIs provided by our proprietary trading applications to enhance system visibility and performance
• Work closely with system administrators to fine-tune Linux-based trading environments
• Contribute to the automation of our infrastructure and application management
• Build, use, and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Conduct user acceptance testing across internal application stacks and understand how traders and support teams utilize our software
• Provide technical input to improve the operational effectiveness of our applications
• Develop your scripting skills (Python or others) by automating complex workflows in collaboration with trading desks

What you need to succeed

• University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or another quantitative field
• Working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows operating systems
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (C++, Python, Go or JavaScript)
• Basic knowledge or interest in networking
• Familiarity or interest in technologies such as Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, or Kafka is a plus
• Strong sense of teamwork and willingness to learn new skills
• Good communication and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to make sound decisions and take ownership

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.