ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub. 

Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more.

www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. 

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology.  Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we’re committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Your Team:

The Futures Trading Technology team is part of the Markets Technology division within ASX Technology. We are a trusted partner to the ASX Futures business, providing solutions that ensure a stable, efficient clearing and settlement facility for ASX’s derivatives trading business.

Your responsibilities:

• Embedded within the Futures Trading Technology Platforms Team, you will be responsible for building and supporting critical markets infrastructure for the ASX 24 Futures Exchange.

• You will support a combination of vendor developed and in-house developed trading software solutions in predominantly Linux environments performing build activities and providing L3 support during production incidents

• You will be able to build automation tooling using shell scripting or Python/Perl programming languages

• You will be hands-on in trouble shooting server, network or relational database related issues

• You will form part of a data engineering practice and community that will design and drive the adoption of standards, frameworks and best practices.

• You will perform Non-Functional testing in QA environments.

• You will work in both On-Premises and Cloud environments.

Your experience and qualifications:

Must have:

• A hands-on engineer with deep experience working in low latency, limited downtime Electronic Trading environments

• Practical experience with supporting complex Trading Systems in Linux environments

• Hands on experiencing writing Shell/Python/Perl scripts

• Solid understanding of network fundamentals including good network trouble shooting skills

• Good understanding of relational databases

• Experience working in Public or Private Cloud environments with a good knowledge of Virtual computing concepts

• Experience with Packet Capture tooling such as Corvill

• Experience with Data Warehouses and Data Lakes

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role.

If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at [email protected].

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.