Come work downtown Chicago for a dynamic and dedicated multi faceted trading firm! The DRW Trading Group (www.drwtrading.com) is an aggressive, dedicated organization engaged in many different aspects of the trading industry, including market making and proprietary trading. As the industry progresses, both in terms of new products and ways of transacting, we expect the future to present us with both great opportunities and challenges. To meet these challenges, the DRW Trading Group is recruiting a Senior Deployment Engineer to lead a team for engineering releases of internally developed applications in our rapidly growing infrastructure.

Responsibilities:
Team lead for Financial Application Engineering team.
Coordinate release projects with appropriate teams, including application support team, infrastructure teams, and development teams.
Responsible for coordinating installation and configuration of new internally developed software.
Work with application support to protect production stability during deployments.
Build a team for smooth, professional delivery of the following services:
Bring application installations from QA through UAT, then into production
Provide end user application orientation as needed
Write runbooks and handoff procedures for support team
Maintain and monitor server side software during UAT to ensure proper functioning of systems being released
Deliver applications via Citrix.

Direct engineering efforts towards process automation and improvement
Liaison between software engineering and end users during deployment to deliver feedback from end users.
Ensure supportability of released systems
Look for opportunities to optimize trading process flows
Streamline implementation and support wherever possible

If this sounds like the opportunity for you please email current resume to .
Experience: Skills:
6+ years Windows XP, 2003
4+ years Linux / Unix experience
Good understanding of trading systems architecture
Strong scripting experience (Perl is a plus)
Basic SQL query experience
Experience supporting trading systems
Exposure to major trading exchanges
Background in networking and troubleshooting common problems
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Strong experience managing deployment teams and projects
Experience deploying and publishing applications on Citrix

If this sounds like the opportunity for you please email current resume to .

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