Production Support Engineer

Post Date

Jan 16, 2025

Location

Plano,
Texas

ZIP/Postal Code

75024
US
Jul 08, 2025 Insight Global

Job Type

Contract

Category

Financial Services

Req #

NYC-756480

Pay Rate

$55 - $68 (hourly estimate)

Job Description

Day to Day:
Insight Global is seeking a Production Support Engineer to join one of our largest financial clients in New York City supporting the Markets APS Rates and Commodities Team. The suite of applications supported cover many different functional aspects of the business, including pricing and trade capture, risk generation and aggregation, market and reference data. The role will give the successful candidate exposure to the full front-to-back process from trade inception to feeding risk downstream

On a day-to-day basis, their support will be centered around streamlining and automating processes in the batch focused team. Individuals will be take data from across multiple LOBs, performing data checks, enhancing the data and back outs. They will make sure batch jobs are running across dozens of applications. In addition, they will perform application health checks to assure system availability and stability, user querying and production incident handling, triage, and hands-on trouble-shooting of Python based applications. They will resolve any performance issues per criticality, capacity management and production release process management. All of these processes should be properly documented and communicated effectively. Ideally, this person is proactive in their identification and resolution of problem hotspots and has the creativity and high-energy required to effectively coordinate restoration efforts for this high-impact space.

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment regardless of their race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please send a request to HR@insightglobal.com.

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Required Skills & Experience

Must Haves:
- 5+ years of experience providing Production/Application support
- SQL (intermediate level: multi-table joins, grouping results, stored procedures)
- Business knowledge in Rates, Fixed Income, Swaps, Treasuries, and/or Trading techniques
- Experience with Python based applications
- Experience monitoring the performance and health of system applications, ability to identify and resolve issues proactively
- Experience scripting with Shell and Python for automation and scripting tasks (Intermediate level: multi-table joins, grouping results, etc...)
- Grid computing (e.g. Data Synapse), job scheduling (Autosys, Crontab) batch management

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

Plusses:
Familiarity or basic coding knowledge of Python, .NET, or Java applications
Dynatrace,
Enterprise Monitoring ideally using ITRS Geneos, Dynatrace
Previous Bank of America experience

Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.