Job Description

KDB+/q Support Engineer

We are seeking an experienced KDB+/q Support Engineer to provide application maintenance and production support for Krypton, a high-performance KDB time-series database platform supporting Agency front-office trading systems. The role involves ensuring platform stability, supporting releases, incident management, and partnering with traders, quants, and technology teams across global markets. This position is critical to maintaining the integrity and performance of our trading systems, ensuring minimal downtime and maximum efficiency.

Experience Required:

4 to 6 years

Key Responsibilities:

- Provide 24x6 production support for the Krypton KDB platform.
- Manage incident, problem, and release management activities.
- Monitor platform performance, availability, and data integrity.
- Support storage and retrieval of market data, orders, executions, analytics, and regulatory datasets.
- Troubleshoot production issues and drive root cause analysis.
- Coordinate with traders, quants, application teams, and infrastructure teams.
- Execute platform upgrades, releases, and operational readiness activities.
- Ensure compliance with governance, regulatory,



and operational standards.

Qualification Criteria:

- Robust experience with KDB+/q and time-series database technologies.
- Production support experience in Capital Markets/Electronic Trading environments.
- Knowledge of market data, order lifecycle, trading analytics, and transaction cost analysis (TCA).
- Experience in incident management, release management, and application support.
- Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments, scripting, and database performance tuning.
- Ability to support global stakeholders across APAC, EMEA, and Americas.
- Exposure to front-office trading platforms and low-latency systems.
- Understanding of regulatory reporting, governance, and non-financial risk controls.
- Experience working with global follow-the-sun support models.

Primary Skills:

- KDB+/q
- time-series database
- production support

Key Skills:

- Automated Release Management
- Incident Management
- Database Technology
- Unix/Linux Basics and Commands
- Linux/Unix environments
- scripting
- database performance tuning

Skills

KDB+/qtime-series databaseproduction support

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