Associate Director - Lead Application Support Specialist, GED Support

Job Description

What is the opportunity?

As a Application Support Engineer for our Quantitative Investment Services, you'll take ownership of the reliability and performance of mission-critical trading platforms. This is more than a support role—you'll drive operational excellence, influence system design, mentor team members, and grow your expertise in SRE practices and modern infrastructure. If you're ready to make a strategic impact in a collaborative, growth-focused environment, we'd love to meet you.

What Will You Do?

• Own the reliability of critical production systems, proactively monitoring and resolving issues across web servers, application servers, middleware, and trading platform infrastructure
• Lead incident response and change management, coordinating cross-functional teams, conducting thorough root cause analysis, and implementing preventative measures that reduce future incidents
• Drive operational excellence by championing SRE practices, automating repetitive workflows, and aligning technical initiatives with business priorities to improve system resilience
• Provide technical leadership by collaborating with development, infrastructure, and L3 support teams to solve complex challenges, and mentoring junior engineers as the team grows
• Manage and optimize application job scheduling, ensuring seamless execution of critical processes and supporting smooth deployments during project implementations
• Influence system architecture by bringing frontline insights to design discussions, helping shape decisions around scalability, reliability, and user experience
• Vibe the toil by utilizing tolls such as github copilot, claude and other AI tools to automate and build solutions to day to day problems.

What Do You Need to Succeed?

Must Have

• 5–10 years of production support experience, ideally in financial services, trading, or other high-availability environments
• Strong SQL skills for querying, analyzing data, and troubleshooting application issues
• Hands-on experience supporting  applications running on LINUX or WINDOWS OS in both traditional and modern containerized environments (Kubernetes)
• Solid understanding of VMs, cloud platforms, and infrastructure fundamentals
• Working knowledge of microservices architectures and RESTful APIs
• Experience with enterprise monitoring and observability tools: Dynatrace Managed, Catchpoint, Kibana, Splunk, Grafana, ITRS, splunk
• Deep familiarity with incident and change management frameworks (ITIL or similar)
• Comfortable participating in rotating 7×24 on-call support (with fair scheduling and team backup)

Nice-to-Have:

• Hands-on experience applying SRE principles (SLOs, error budgets, blameless postmortems)
• Background in asset management or CMDB processes

What’s in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Access to a variety of job opportunities across business and geographies

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