Production Engineer – Trading, Electronic Trading Systems
MARGO
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Operate and support Front Office trading systems in production
- Ensure high availability, stability and performance during market hours
- Own incident management from detection to resolution and root cause analysis
- Participate in on-call or production support rotations when required
- Contribute to post-incident reviews and long-term remediation actions
- Investigate complex production issues across applications, operating systems and databases
- Perform log analysis, system diagnostics and performance troubleshooting
- Analyse latency, throughput and resource utilisation
- Work closely with development teams to identify and resolve production bottlenecks
- Develop scripts and tools to automate operational tasks and investigations
- Improve monitoring, alerting and observability of production systems
- Contribute to deployment, release and change automation
- Reduce manual interventions through standardisation and automation
- Participate in releases, deployments and production changes
- Support testing and validation in pre-production environments
- Continuously improve system resilience, scalability and operability
- Collaborate with infrastructure and network teams on production topics
Requirements
- Experience in production engineering, IT operations or trading support environments
- Strong Linux / UNIX knowledge in production contexts
- Solid SQL skills for production analysis and investigations
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Ability to work in real-time, production-critical environments
- Clear communication and strong ownership mindset
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
- Front Office or trading system exposure
- Experience with scripting, automation or tooling development
- Understanding of financial markets and trading concepts
- Desire to evolve towards more technical or platform-oriented roles
Benefits
- Access to demanding Front Office trading environments
- Strong focus on production ownership and system reliability
- Highly technical roles close to live trading activity
- Human-sized consultancy with close support and tailored training
- Long-term career opportunities across production, engineering and development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
LinuxUNIXSQLscriptingautomationperformance troubleshootinglog analysissystem diagnosticsresource utilisation analysisproduction engineering
Soft skills
troubleshootinganalytical skillsclear communicationownership mindsetindependent workcollaborative workincident managementproblem-solvingadaptabilityattention to detail