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The firm offers full-service prime brokerage and execution via its cutting-edge proprietary technology, as well as market leading analytics, cleared through the group’s bank Prime Brokers.\niSAM Funds is an alternative asset manager specialising in systematic investing. Each strategy is unique, provides a specialist quantitative approach and is designed to deliver highly diversifying absolute returns for institutional portfolios.\nAbout the Role:\nISAM SECURITIES (EU) LIMITED, a technology company part of iSAM Securities, is responsible for building and maintaining trading infrastructure, risk analytics, and post-trade solutions. The role focuses on managing proprietary Trading Engine as well as MT4/MT5 server infrastructure, client onboarding, and the configuration of proprietary trading and analytics platforms.\nThe Operations Engineering team ensures stability, performance, and reliability of the trading technology stack, supporting both internal teams and external clients. This includes monitoring systems, handling technical issues, and managing trading platform configurations to ensure optimal execution and risk management. This role is part of a global operations team covering market hours across multiple time zones. The team is focused on automation and eliminating manual recurring tasks to enhance efficiency and reliability.\nResponsibilities:\nSet up and maintain Trading Technology solutions for liquidity management and order execution.\nConfigure and support iSAM APEX (trading engine) and iSAM RADAR (post-trade analytics platform).\nManage MT4/MT5 trading server infrastructure including symbols, groups through automation tools as well as gateway configuration trade execution rules.\nMonitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability.\nOversee client technical onboarding, ensuring fast and accurate setup.\nImplement failover processes and active backup solutions to maintain system resilience.\nSupport change management processes, including software updates and infrastructure changes.\nUtilize automation tools to minimize manual recurring tasks and improve operational efficiency.\nQualifications:\nStrong knowledge of bridge/trading engine technologies (Centroid, FXCubic, OneZero, PrimeXM, etc.).\n5+ years of experience managing MT4/MT5 server infrastructure.\nFamiliarity with FIX protocol and post-trade data processing.\nKnowledge of Windows Server administration, including troubleshooting and performance optimization.\nExperience handling client onboarding and infrastructure setup\nUnderstanding of risk analytics platforms is an advantage.\nKnowledge of network protocols, monitoring tools and connectivity troubleshooting.\nFamiliarity with Linux server environments.\nExperience with automation and scripting (Python, PowerShell) to optimize workflows.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3189,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-17T01:07:40Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":7,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.265,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":127,"expected_fill_days":24,"reasons":["conf:0","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-04T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/isam-operations-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/isam-operations-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-05T00:47:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":950,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4050,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-06T00:00:00Z"}}}