Intern - Systems Engineering
Jump Trading
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
On-site
Entry
posted 3 days ago
Vacancies Summary
Join Jump Trading Group as a Systems Engineering Intern and gain hands-on experience in managing and optimizing our trading environment. This 10-week internship offers the opportunity to collaborate with experts while enhancing your technical skills in a fast-paced, innovative setting.
Jump Trading Group is dedicated to world-class research, empowering talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to explore scientific boundaries and apply cutting-edge research to global financial markets. Our unique culture fosters innovation through creativity, intellectual honesty, and collaboration. We believe in winning together and unlocking individual talent through mutual respect.
About the Company
Trading Infrastructure is a global team of engineers responsible for architecting, building, and maintaining our world-class infrastructure. We focus on everything from colo design and implementation to optimizing exchange connectivity and developing low-latency Wide Area Networks. Our approach leverages research and automation to adapt and innovate our infrastructure, supporting our trading and evolving business needs.
The Role
As a Systems Engineering Intern, you will engage in a 10-week intensive experience with our frontline technology teams, who manage and enhance the real-time trading environment at Jump Trading. You will work alongside experienced systems and network engineers, gaining extensive technical and operational knowledge across the trading platform and technology stack. This internship serves as a key pathway for identifying top young system engineers for our Technology Operations teams and potential full-time opportunities.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with traders, operations, exchanges, and developers to optimize the trading environment and troubleshoot system issues.
- Proactively monitor the health and performance of the trading platform.
- Analyze and resolve complex system, software, and networking infrastructure issues.
- Design, implement, and optimize network infrastructure for low-latency trading applications in various data centers.
- Build automation to enhance the production trading environment.
- Coordinate changes and manage incidents with risk management and trading teams.
- Assess operational risk associated with change control in the production environment.
- Define and document processes and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Major in Computer Science/Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
- Experience with Linux/UNIX OS, including advanced commands and shell scripting.
- Practical knowledge of Python.
- Understanding of networking concepts such as routing, multicast, and Ethernet.
- Detail-oriented approach to operations.
- Ability to communicate clearly under pressure.
- Desire to work collaboratively in a team environment with a positive attitude.
- Reliable availability.
- No finance or economics study or work experience required.
Required skills
PYTHON
scripting
Computer Science
Finance
Mathematics
Devops
Linux
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