eTrading Production Engineer - Hybrid London

Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Deutsche Bank is seeking an eTrading Production Engineer for a 6-month contract in London. The role focuses on stability, performance, and incident response for electronic trading systems with hybrid work (3 days in office, 2 from home).

The position requires strong Linux/Unix, SQL, scripting skills and experience with low-latency trading, cloud, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to governance and operational risk processes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience supporting electronic trading systems, low-latency platforms, or front-office trading applications in financial services.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration, SQL, and scripting skills.
• Advanced programming experience in Python, Java, C++, or similar languages.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, Corvil, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, messaging technologies, and event-driven architectures used in electronic trading.
• Experience with cloud technologies, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices.
• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle, electronic execution workflows, market data and risk systems.

Responsibilities

• Ensure the stability, availability, and performance of electronic trading, market connectivity, pricing and risk management platforms.
• Lead the response to production incidents with a focus on rapid recovery, root cause analysis, and preventative engineering solutions.
• Design and implement monitoring, telemetry, alerting and automation solutions to improve system visibility and reduce manual operational effort.
• Analyse and optimise system latency, throughput, capacity and resiliency across trading workflows.
• Support exchange connectivity, market data distribution, order routing, pricing engines and algorithmic trading platforms.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure systems are designed for reliability, scalability, operability and supportability from inception.
• Play an active part of the electronic trading controls governance processes. change management, incident management, problem management and operational risk standards.
• Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices in automation, software engineering, observability and operational excellence.

Skills

Linux/Unix

SQL

Scripting

Python/Java/C++

Observability

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Splunk

Geneos

Corvil

Job description

Deutsche Bank is seeking an eTrading Production Engineer for a 6-month contract in London. The role focuses on stability, performance, and incident response for electronic trading systems with hybrid work (3 days in office, 2 from home).

The position requires strong Linux/Unix, SQL, scripting skills and experience with low-latency trading, cloud, containers, Kubernetes, and CI/CD practices. You will mentor junior engineers and contribute to governance and operational risk processes.