Senior Engineer, Platform Operations

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

Category: Technology

Employment Type: Full time

Job Description

Job Description
Senior Engineer – Platform Operations 

To help us manage and maintain the growing and diverse application landscape, Cboe Clear Europe N.V. (Cboe Clear) is looking to expand its Platform Operations team with an enthusiastic, smart and dynamic all-round Senior Engineer – Platform Operations.  

Cboe Clear is a successful company of approx. 120 persons with an IT Run department of 12 specialists. We care deeply about business continuity, reliability, and the customer experience. To be able to manage a wide range of hardware, business software and applications, we need our IT colleagues to have a flexible, energetic, and enthusiastic can-do attitude towards all IT related work.  

The Cboe Clear IT infrastructure is setup in two data center locations in the Netherlands and in two offices located in Amsterdam and London. All IT operational activities are performed from the office location in Amsterdam-Zuid. 

 
Job requirements
 

The IT Run department is responsible for the Cboe Clear IT Infrastructure and business processing.
The Platform Operations team’s focus is on the business processing area. As Engineer Platform Operations you will control and maintain all business processes using monitoring and scheduling tools, deploy application releases, patching and maintain supporting scripts. 
 
We are looking for a colleague who is passionate about making a difference in an operational environment. The ideal candidate will have a strong knowledge of SWIFT systems and applications. He/she will also be eager to gain new knowledge especially in Cboe Clear’s business applications with a strong focus on delivering reliable services to our colleagues and clients. You will be looking for continuous improvement and strive for operational excellence. 

 
Job responsibilities 
 

• Monitoring production, disaster recovery, and certification systems to prevent or solve issues 

• Providing day to day support to colleagues and the Cboe Clear Operational departments 

• Troubleshooting and driving resolution of issues 

• Managing operational batch processing 

• Deployment of new releases to Production environments 

• Participate in standby rotation and occasional weekend testing requirements 

• Working on Jira tickets assigned to Platform Operations 

• Providing the Cboe Clear business with information on uptimes, performance, incidents and planned changes  

• Improve security by centralizing logging and IAM  

• Interfacing with external suppliers in case of incidents, problems or changes to maintain and support the applications 

• Special projects: supporting implementation of new environments and new business requirements 
   

Knowledge and education
 

• Strong knowledge of Swift systems and applications 

• RedHat Enterprise Linux background and experience 

• High level of proficiency in Linux shell scripting, Python and SQL 

• Daily use of AI assistants for investigation, scripting, documentation, and ticket preparation. 

The ideal candidate will possess: 

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English 

• Experience in a technical operations support role 

• Equivalent of Bachelor’s degree or higher 

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills (a must) 

• Experience with monitoring systems ( Nagios, Grafana ) 

• Comfort with Scheduling Systems ( RunMyJobs, Airflow ) 

• Automated configuration management ( preferably Salt Stack, Gitlab ) 

• Vigorous desire to learn clearing business and Cboe Clear technology 

• Ability to work well in a dynamic team-oriented environment 

It would be highly preferable if candidates for the function are experienced in:  

• Managing and maintaining SWIFT configurations 

• IBM MQseries 

• Basic knowledge of DB administration [Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL Cluster] 

• Kubernetes 

Personal characteristics
 

• Team player  

• Hard worker with high quality standards  

• Flexible and enthusiastic “can do” attitude  

• Communicative and open personality  

• Well-developed planning and coordination skills 

• Strong security awareness 

About Cboe Clear Europe
 

Headquartered in Amsterdam, Cboe Clear Europe N.V. provides post-trade services to stock exchanges, multilateral trading facilities (MTFs) and for OTC equities trades. Cboe Clear services trading platforms regulated under MiFID and has clearing participants with headquarters in 14 jurisdictions in Europe, North America and Asia. Cboe Clear is under supervision of the De Nederlandsche Bank and the Authority for Financial Markets. 

Cboe Clear is a relatively small, very dynamic and fast-growing organization under the strict supervision of financial regulators. The organization is very international and the culture is professional but at the same time quite informal. 

Cboe Clear’s values 

We Are Bold 

We Act Like Owners 

We Take the Long View 

We Set the Standard 
 

Information and Contact 
 

Please feel free to apply for this position and send your Curriculum Vitae and motivation letter.  

Any communication from Cboe regarding this position will only come from a Cboe recruiter who has a @cboe.com email or via LinkedIn Recruiter. Cboe does not use any other third party communication tools for recruiting purposes.