Risk Technology Production Engineer
Balyasny Asset Management L.P. · New York, NY · 1 mo ago
On-siteEngineeringFull-time
Responsibilities
- Proactively engage with Risk Managers to resolve issues and identify improvement opportunities.
- Work as part of the global support team, participating in follow-the-sun support model with appropriate geographic handovers.
- Roll out, set up, and educate end-users on new product implementations.
- Provide 1st and 2nd line support for risk applications reported directly by users or through alerting systems.
- Work with external vendors’ support teams to resolve technical and functional issues.
- Aid Development teams, supporting new projects from requirements gathering through deployment to production.
- Implement and maintain application specific monitoring using ITRS Geneos, LGTM stacks, and other APM tools.
- Set up and monitor automated jobs in a central scheduler; ActiveBatch and Airflow.
- Develop automation solutions that eliminate repetitive manual work and reduce operational toil.
- Disciplined use of ticket, issue, and change management systems using Jira/Jira Service Desk.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Proactive with excellent communication skills; lively, friendly, sociable personality
- 2-5 years of experience working with investment banks, investment advisors or associated software vendors
- Experience with at least one major asset class (e.g. rates, equities, FX, credit) and associated modeling and market data
- Strong troubleshooting and creative problem-solving abilities, including being able to interpret, understand, and troubleshoot internally developed systems
- Experience in software deployment, administration, and support
- Experience with Python development tools, processes, debugging and common packages; Pandas, Polars, NumPy, Conda, UV
- Strong SQL experience across various database implementations, including MSSQL and Snowflake
- Experience with JIRA Service Desk, AWS/Cloud, Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with Linux and Windows operating system administration
- Experience in scripting e.g. Bash, PowerShell
Other Beneficial Experience
- Understanding risk analytics with the ability to discuss these products with Portfolio Managers, Analysts, and Risk Managers
- Experience with the following systems/technologies beneficial: Risk Metrics, Beacon, Axioma, Barra
- Experience with monitoring and observability platform e.g., ITRS Geneos and Grafana LGTM stack
- Experience supporting large scale, distributed systems, micro-service and event-based designs
- Experience with AI Agent harness
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