OT: job offering in Milan

[Michele Simionato]

My current employer is looking for a senior system
administrator/programmer with good Python
expertise. Notice that the job is in Milan, Italy and that we do not
consider remote work.
You can mail your CV and/or ask questions to (e-mail address removed)
I can say this is a nice place to work

Here is the announcement.

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Position Title
Senior System Engineer

The Company
StatPro, a leader Company in the field of portfolio analytics for the
global asset management market, is looking for a Senior Systems/Network
Engineering Specialist, who is ready for a new challenge.

Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate should have Bachelor or Master Scientific degree
and at least 5 years of experience in Linux and Microsoft Operating
Systems as System Administrator.
He/She will be able to manage the installation, configuration, tuning
and troubleshooting servers (Microsoft, Linux and BSD), both for
institutional services and for specific projects. He/She should also
have skills in networking and previous experience with cluster
environments on unix-like systems.
The candidate will be asked to develop scripting procedures for
automating common system tasks and for system and application
monitoring purpose.
Experience with the python programming language and relational
databases is a plus.

Attitude
He/she should be a pro-active, quick-learner individual with strong
initiative and good English communication skills.

The offer
The offered package is in line with the top market levels for the
position.
The working location is Milan.

 

[Robin Becker]

Michele Simionato wrote:
.......

The Company
StatPro, a leader Company in the field of portfolio analytics for the
global asset management market, is looking for a Senior Systems/Network
Engineering Specialist, who is ready for a new challenge.
.....

real pity, I used to do portfolio analytics for Bita Plus and SBC; minimax risk
curves were just my bag etc etc .

My math skills are now so degraded I have difficulty reading about conic
programming using Nesterov's barrier functions etc etc.

Oh well back to web scraping

 

[Michele Simionato]

Michele Simionato wrote:
......
real pity, I used to do portfolio analytics for Bita Plus and SBC; minimax risk
curves were just my bag etc etc .

My math skills are now so degraded I have difficulty reading about conic
programming using Nesterov's barrier functions etc etc.

Oh well back to web scraping

This position is for a system administrator (we are going to setup a
cluster Linux
for risk computations) but very likely we will have opening for other
positions, for
experts in financial computations/risk analysis. So if there is
somebody interested,
he can write to (e-mail address removed). Pretending I am on topic, I
will add
that most of our sofware is in Python, whereas all the numerical
intensive routines
are in C++.

Michele Simionato

 

[Cameron Laird]

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My math skills are now so degraded I have difficulty reading about conic
programming using Nesterov's barrier functions etc etc.

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You've got me curious. I haven't yet located an adequate
introduction to the topic, so I'll ask *you* about the
basics: do these (*semi*definite?) cones arise in financial
with time the privileged dimension? Does "cone" here mean
necessarily with a quadratic cross-section? If so, why is
that more compelling than the simplexes of more traditional
LP?