Remote Trading Operations Engineer — APAC Hours

Arcus Search; Dubai; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first working environment

Flexible and supportive culture

Global offsites and team workations

Job summary

Arcus Search is partnering with a high-performance trading firm to hire a Trading Operations Engineer. You will support global trading systems during APAC hours, covering early mornings from a Dubai perspective, ensuring uptime and real-time incident response.

In a fast-paced, live-systems environment, you’ll own operational reliability, collaborate with traders and engineers, and drive automation and tooling improvements in a 24/7 setting.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux fundamentals including shell usage, system debugging, and networking tools.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and troubleshooting connectivity issues.
• Able to read and debug Python code in production.
• Comfortable working in a 24/7 environment with an incident-response mindset.

Responsibilities

• Provide dedicated off-hours coverage to maintain high trading uptime.
• Act as the first responder for production and infrastructure incidents during your shift.
• Collaborate closely with trading and engineering teams to minimise downtime and improve resolution times.
• Monitor system health, performance, and alerts using modern observability tools.
• Contribute to reliability best practices within an SRE-style environment.
• Drive improvements in automation, tooling, and operational workflows.

Skills

Linux fundamentals

Networking concepts

Python code reading

Incident-response mindset

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Job description

Arcus Search is partnering with a high-performance trading firm to hire a Trading Operations Engineer. You will support global trading systems during APAC hours, covering early mornings from a Dubai perspective, ensuring uptime and real-time incident response.

In a fast-paced, live-systems environment, you’ll own operational reliability, collaborate with traders and engineers, and drive automation and tooling improvements in a 24/7 setting.