Harrington Starr are currently working with a leading Financial Services company based in the City of London. 

Our client, is looking to hire an ambitious Performance Tester who will join an experienced QA team to test all performance and other non-functional aspects of various IT systems.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate strong experience in developing performance test scrips and good understanding of non-functional aspects of IT systems.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Produce Performance Test scripts and scenarios in accordance with the documented approach
• Execute the performance tests prescribed within the Performance Test Design and document any deviation from the test scenarios as originally defined
• Generate test data for load testing
• Document defects discovered during the running of the tests
• Work with Technical Lead and other resources across the development and environments teams to rectify issues encountered during testing and tune the application performance.
• Report progress to the Test Manager

Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role:

• Preferred - Bachelors or Master’s Degree (IT or Maths although other degrees will be considered)
• Strong scripting experience on Jmeter (preferably with an understanding plugin development in Java) or HP Loadrunner
• Strong knowledge of Performance, Capacity, Stress Testing Techniques/Methods/Tools
• Working knowledge of Unix and MS Windows, relational databases (preferably MS-SQL Server and MySQL) and web servers (preferably IIS)
• Working knowledge of performance monitoring of Operating Systems and relational databases like MySQL/MS-SQL server and Web/Application Servers (IIS)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Performance and failover testing experience in a professional role, preferably with low latency
• Understanding of Server topology (web/app/DB server), Computer Networks (TCP/IP, load balancers, firewalls), and knowledge of service layers, Restful service, SOAP Web Services, Websockets

Personal skills: 

• Willingness to learn new skills and technologies
• Motivated and proactive
• A strong teamwork ethic with a proven ability to work collaboratively
• Outstanding communications and interpersonal capabilities – both written and verbal
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Flexibility in working around logistic and technical blockers.

Harrington Starr are currently working with a leading Financial Services company based in the City of London. 

Our client, is looking to hire an ambitious Performance Tester who will join an experienced QA team to test all performance and other non-functional aspects of various IT systems.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate strong experience in developing performance test scrips and good understanding of non-functional aspects of IT systems.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Produce Performance Test scripts and scenarios in accordance with the documented approach
• Execute the performance tests prescribed within the Performance Test Design and document any deviation from the test scenarios as originally defined
• Generate test data for load testing
• Document defects discovered during the running of the tests
• Work with Technical Lead and other resources across the development and environments teams to rectify issues encountered during testing and tune the application performance.
• Report progress to the Test Manager

Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role:

• Preferred - Bachelors or Master’s Degree (IT or Maths although other degrees will be considered)
• Strong scripting experience on Jmeter (preferably with an understanding plugin development in Java) or HP Loadrunner
• Strong knowledge of Performance, Capacity, Stress Testing Techniques/Methods/Tools
• Working knowledge of Unix and MS Windows, relational databases (preferably MS-SQL Server and MySQL) and web servers (preferably IIS)
• Working knowledge of performance monitoring of Operating Systems and relational databases like MySQL/MS-SQL server and Web/Application Servers (IIS)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Performance and failover testing experience in a professional role, preferably with low latency
• Understanding of Server topology (web/app/DB server), Computer Networks (TCP/IP, load balancers, firewalls), and knowledge of service layers, Restful service, SOAP Web Services, Websockets

Personal skills: 

• Willingness to learn new skills and technologies
• Motivated and proactive
• A strong teamwork ethic with a proven ability to work collaboratively
• Outstanding communications and interpersonal capabilities – both written and verbal
• Ability to work to tight deadlines and under pressure
• Flexibility in working around logistic and technical blockers.

Front Office Trading Support Analyst

A leading Investment Management firm have partnered with Harrington Starr to search for a Front Office Trading Support Analyst. You will be supporting all parts of the business dealing with issues on the front end GUI to general trading questions, escalating to development where necessary.

The Front Office Trading Support Analyst will work on the trade floor alongside the traders and will have the chance to work with some of the world’s leading organisations as well as leading technologies.

In order to be considered for the role of the Front Office Trading Support Analyst, the following is important:

• Previous Front Office Trade Support experience with a good understanding of front office trade processing
• Strong asset class knowledge ideally Cash Equities 
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to maintain relationships with third party ISV vendors and exchanges
• Technical heartbeat with technical skills in SQL, Unix and scripting knowledge 

This is an immediate need with a fast interview process so if you are interested, please do not hesitate to apply or get in touch ASAP james.platt@harringtonstarr.com

Front Office Trading Support Analyst

A leading Investment Management firm have partnered with Harrington Starr to search for a Front Office Trading Support Analyst. You will be supporting all parts of the business dealing with issues on the front end GUI to general trading questions, escalating to development where necessary.

The Front Office Trading Support Analyst will work on the trade floor alongside the traders and will have the chance to work with some of the world’s leading organisations as well as leading technologies.

In order to be considered for the role of the Front Office Trading Support Analyst, the following is important:

• Previous Front Office Trade Support experience with a good understanding of front office trade processing
• Strong asset class knowledge ideally Cash Equities 
• Excellent communications skills with the ability to maintain relationships with third party ISV vendors and exchanges
• Technical heartbeat with technical skills in SQL, Unix and scripting knowledge 

This is an immediate need with a fast interview process so if you are interested, please do not hesitate to apply or get in touch ASAP james.platt@harringtonstarr.com

Senior HPC/Grid Engineer, Chicago, Permanent Direct Hire role

A top hedge fund is hiring in their Chicago office for a Senior HPC/Grid Engineer with a deep understanding of Grid workloads, scheduling, and data services at scale. You will work with the business to architect, build, and operate high throughput computational grids, using a combination of off the shelf software, vendor storage appliances, and internally developed automation to power the revenue generating workloads of hundreds of quantitative researchers. In this role you will evaluate new hardware and software to meet business requirements, build automation tools to monitor manage, and provision compute nodes and grid workloads, build automation to manage, provision, and report on grid resources, job status, performance and failures, and provide escalation support to business users and other grid consumers.

This role requires at least 4 years of experience running and deploying HPC or Grid services for large scale environments and expertise in the challenges of scale out workloads, and know how to compose reliable services out of unreliable components, experience with HPC file systems such as Lustre, GPFS< or Quobyte, and strong fluency in Python for building automation tools and services. The role also requires knowledge of the appropriate compute, network, and storage offerings for different use cases, deep knowledge of job schedulers such as Slurm or Symphony, understanding of Unix, NFS, and networking, a practitioner of Infrastructure as Code, with constant evaluation and pursuit of opportunities to automate tasks, and experience using configuration management such as Salt, Ansible, and Puppet.

Candidates should ideally have experience with public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP to architect hybrid storage environments using S3, GCS, or Glacier, and experience managing and automating enterprise storage vendors and products such as EMC and NetApp, experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and InfluxDB, and experience with version control such as Git or Perforce.

If this sounds like a fit for you or someone you know, get in touch! I can be reached at Matt.Kerwin@HarringtonStarr.com or at 646 809 4742.

Matt Kerwin

Senior Consultant, Head of Infrastructure & Support – North America

Harrington Starr | 575 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10017

D: +1 646 809 4742

O: +1 646 381 2067

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Senior HPC/Grid Engineer, Chicago, Permanent Direct Hire role

A top hedge fund is hiring in their Chicago office for a Senior HPC/Grid Engineer with a deep understanding of Grid workloads, scheduling, and data services at scale. You will work with the business to architect, build, and operate high throughput computational grids, using a combination of off the shelf software, vendor storage appliances, and internally developed automation to power the revenue generating workloads of hundreds of quantitative researchers. In this role you will evaluate new hardware and software to meet business requirements, build automation tools to monitor manage, and provision compute nodes and grid workloads, build automation to manage, provision, and report on grid resources, job status, performance and failures, and provide escalation support to business users and other grid consumers.

This role requires at least 4 years of experience running and deploying HPC or Grid services for large scale environments and expertise in the challenges of scale out workloads, and know how to compose reliable services out of unreliable components, experience with HPC file systems such as Lustre, GPFS< or Quobyte, and strong fluency in Python for building automation tools and services. The role also requires knowledge of the appropriate compute, network, and storage offerings for different use cases, deep knowledge of job schedulers such as Slurm or Symphony, understanding of Unix, NFS, and networking, a practitioner of Infrastructure as Code, with constant evaluation and pursuit of opportunities to automate tasks, and experience using configuration management such as Salt, Ansible, and Puppet.

Candidates should ideally have experience with public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP to architect hybrid storage environments using S3, GCS, or Glacier, and experience managing and automating enterprise storage vendors and products such as EMC and NetApp, experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and InfluxDB, and experience with version control such as Git or Perforce.

If this sounds like a fit for you or someone you know, get in touch! I can be reached at Matt.Kerwin@HarringtonStarr.com or at 646 809 4742.

Matt Kerwin

Senior Consultant, Head of Infrastructure & Support – North America

Harrington Starr | 575 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10017

D: +1 646 809 4742

O: +1 646 381 2067

We take your privacy very seriously and as such, we want to be as transparent as possible. To read more about how we always have your best interests at heart, head over to our Privacy Policy. For more details please visit our website at www.harringtonstarr.com.

Senior HPC / Grid Engineer, New York, Permanent Direct Hire role

A top hedge fund is hiring in their New York City office for a Senior HPC/Grid Engineer with a deep understanding of Grid workloads, scheduling, and data services at scale. You will work with the business to architect, build, and operate high throughput computational grids, using a combination of off the shelf software, vendor storage appliances, and internally developed automation to power the revenue generating workloads of hundreds of quantitative researchers. In this role you will evaluate new hardware and software to meet business requirements, build automation tools to monitor manage, and provision compute nodes and grid workloads, build automation to manage, provision, and report on grid resources, job status, performance and failures, and provide escalation support to business users and other grid consumers.

This role requires at least 4 years of experience running and deploying HPC or Grid services for large scale environments and expertise in the challenges of scale out workloads, and know how to compose reliable services out of unreliable components, experience with HPC file systems such as Lustre, GPFS< or Quobyte, and strong fluency in Python for building automation tools and services. The role also requires knowledge of the appropriate compute, network, and storage offerings for different use cases, deep knowledge of job schedulers such as Slurm or Symphony, understanding of Unix, NFS, and networking, a practitioner of Infrastructure as Code, with constant evaluation and pursuit of opportunities to automate tasks, and experience using configuration management such as Salt, Ansible, and Puppet.

Candidates should ideally have experience with public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP to architect hybrid storage environments using S3, GCS, or Glacier, and experience managing and automating enterprise storage vendors and products such as EMC and NetApp, experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and InfluxDB, and experience with version control such as Git or Perforce.

If this sounds like a fit for you or someone you know, get in touch! I can be reached at Matt.Kerwin@HarringtonStarr.com or at 646 809 4742.

Senior HPC / Grid Engineer, New York, Permanent Direct Hire role

A top hedge fund is hiring in their New York City office for a Senior HPC/Grid Engineer with a deep understanding of Grid workloads, scheduling, and data services at scale. You will work with the business to architect, build, and operate high throughput computational grids, using a combination of off the shelf software, vendor storage appliances, and internally developed automation to power the revenue generating workloads of hundreds of quantitative researchers. In this role you will evaluate new hardware and software to meet business requirements, build automation tools to monitor manage, and provision compute nodes and grid workloads, build automation to manage, provision, and report on grid resources, job status, performance and failures, and provide escalation support to business users and other grid consumers.

This role requires at least 4 years of experience running and deploying HPC or Grid services for large scale environments and expertise in the challenges of scale out workloads, and know how to compose reliable services out of unreliable components, experience with HPC file systems such as Lustre, GPFS< or Quobyte, and strong fluency in Python for building automation tools and services. The role also requires knowledge of the appropriate compute, network, and storage offerings for different use cases, deep knowledge of job schedulers such as Slurm or Symphony, understanding of Unix, NFS, and networking, a practitioner of Infrastructure as Code, with constant evaluation and pursuit of opportunities to automate tasks, and experience using configuration management such as Salt, Ansible, and Puppet.

Candidates should ideally have experience with public cloud services such as AWS, Azure, and GCP to architect hybrid storage environments using S3, GCS, or Glacier, and experience managing and automating enterprise storage vendors and products such as EMC and NetApp, experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and InfluxDB, and experience with version control such as Git or Perforce.

If this sounds like a fit for you or someone you know, get in touch! I can be reached at Matt.Kerwin@HarringtonStarr.com or at 646 809 4742.