Application Support Engineer, Canada, OEX

Crypto.com
Canada
RemoteCareer-pivot friendly

Who this role is best for

Best suited to candidates with production support experience in financial services and strong technical skills in UNIX, SQL, and APIs, working in a high-pressure, on-call environment with a focus on trading systems and process optimization.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with prior experience in financial services and technical expertise in trading systems and APIs
    — “Required experience in supporting Trading System (OMS/EMS) with exposure to Equities, Derivatives, FX or Cryptocurrency Trading domain”
  • Candidates who are self-starters and can quickly adapt to new technologies and business areas
    — “Self-starter and able to quickly pickup new concepts, business areas and technologies”

Things to consider

  • Shift work and weekend support are mandatory, which may not be suitable for all candidates
    — “Open to shift work and weekend support”
  • Strong incident handling and communication skills are required for stakeholder interactions
    — “Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English). Ability to communicate with different Stakeholders and interfacing teams in clear and concise manner”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with Linux/Java systems and cloud technologies in your resume and interview responses
    — “Strong technical understanding of Linux/Java based systems with exposure to Cloud Technology and DevOps utilities”
  • Demonstrate your ability to identify and implement process improvements and automation
    — “Identify area of improvements, implement process optimization, automation of manual task and improve the service level the team provides to the end users”
  • Showcase your ability to handle production incidents and collaborate with cross-functional teams
    — “The roles requires end-to-end ownership of Production issues, collaborating with various technical and business support teams”
  • Emphasize your experience with UNIX commands, SQL, and scripting in your application materials
    — “Experience with UNIX commands in debugging , SQLs and Bash/Python scripting”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • resolved production incidents
  • implemented process optimizations
Typical background
production support experiencefinancial services background

Skills & requirements

Required

UNIX CommandsSQLBash/python ScriptingIncident Management

Preferred

ITIL CertificationCloud Technology Experience

Stack & domain

UNIXSQLBashPythonFIX ProtocolApisLinuxJavaCloud TechnologyDevOpsGrafanaPrometheusControl-mITRS GeneosDynatraceCommunicationTeamworkProblem SolvingITILFinanceCryptocurrency

About the role

Original posting from Crypto.com via Lever

Exchange Support team is responsible for maintaining global system for the firm’s cryptocurrency trading business which operates 24x7. This team provides L2/L3 support to Business users and has full ownership of the production environment for all key business lines (Exchange platform, Risk management system, Backoffice, Market data and non-trading activities). We are adding strong technology focused team members for various position in the Exchange Production Support team.

Responsibilities:

  • Primary responsibility includes but not limited to,
  • User Management: Provide technical support to Sales, Business Users, Institutional and Retail customer base with focus on application support, API support and network connectivity.
  • Incident Management: Identification and resolution of production incidents. The roles requires end-to-end ownership of Production issues, collaborating with various technical and business support teams, escalation and resolution of incident in timely manner.
  • Process Management: Take ownership of all release activities, participate in audit reviews and execute BCP exercise. Ensure Process Management continue to meet ITIL best practice standards, SLA and Client expectations.
  • Operations Management: Monitor and automate application and infrastructure alerts to ensure timely actions are taken to maintain system stability and uptime for all the applications. Maintain knowledge repository and standard operating procedure documentation.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify area of improvements, implement process optimization, automation of manual task and improve the service level the team provides to the end users.

Required Skills:

  • 2+ years of production support experience preferably within the Banking or Financial Service industry.
  • Technical Skills: Experience with UNIX commands in debugging , SQLs and Bash/Python scripting. Previous experience on supporting FIX protocol and APIs is must.
  • Strong technical understanding of Linux/Java based systems with exposure to Cloud Technology and DevOps utilities.
  • Good knowledge of monitoring, visualization and scheduling tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Control-M, ITRS Geneos, Dynatrace or similar utilities.
  • Service oriented with strong Incident handling & troubleshooting skills. ITIL certification preferred.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills (English). Ability to communicate with different Stakeholders and interfacing teams in clear and concise manner.
  • Required experience in supporting Trading System (OMS/EMS) with exposure to Equities, Derivatives, FX or Cryptocurrency Trading domain.
  • Must be able to work under high pressure, handle multiple priorities, result driven with attention to details and deliver to demanding deadlines.
  • Self-starter and able to quickly pickup new concepts, business areas and technologies.
  • Open to shift work and weekend support.

Source: Crypto.com careers (Lever)

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