Trade Floor Desktop Systems Engineer
Quant Capital
Overview
In this role you support a fast-paced front-office trading environment, ensuring speed and reliability of critical systems. You will work closely with traders and cross-functional teams to own issues end-to-end and drive improvements across the user environment. The role combines hands-on troubleshooting with automation to reduce manual intervention, while evaluating new technologies to add value. Expect autonomy, rapid action, and a direct, no-nonsense working style in a serious trading setting.
Responsibilities- Support a front-office trading environment with emphasis on speed and reliability
- Manage and troubleshoot trading applications and user systems
- Own user onboarding, hardware rollout and device lifecycle
- Collaborate with trading, engineering and infrastructure teams globally
- Drive improvements across the user environment and tooling
- Automate workflows and reduce manual intervention across systems
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies that add value
- Experience supporting users and applications across Windows, Linux and macOS
- Background in trading or similarly high-pressure environments
- Comfort working directly with front-office users and time-critical systems
- Strong troubleshooting skills across OS, hardware and applications
- Scripting or automation experience (PowerShell, Python or similar)
- Ability to take ownership, prioritize, and deliver under pressure
- Clear communicator with direct, no-nonsense approach
- PowerShell or Python scripting
- Experience with Active Directory / Windows Server
- Exposure to endpoint management tooling
- clear communicator
- ownership
- prioritization under pressure
- Windows
- Linux
- macOS
Reference: WJ-747_30151462