Front Office Production Engineer

Morson Edge (Financial Services); City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global Investment Bank is seeking a Front Office Production Engineer with strong knowledge in Site Reliability Engineering, Linux, and Oracle. The role involves incident management, monitoring with tools like Grafana, and directly assisting Front Office users. Candidates should have expertise in Python and Shell Scripting for automation, ensuring production stability for trading activities. This position is based in the City of London.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering Principles and how to implement them.
• Technical expertise in Linux and databases (preferably Oracle and KDB).
• Skills in Python and Shell Scripting for automation purposes.

Responsibilities

• Split responsibilities across incident management & root cause analysis.
• Work with development teams to resolve issues.
• Monitor production environment using tools like Geneos, Grafana, and Splunk.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering Principles

Linux

Oracle

KDB

Monitoring and Observability tooling

Python

Shell Scripting

FIX Messaging

Job description

Front Office Production Engineer – Linux, Oracle, KDB, SRE, Python, Shell Scripting, Automation, Monitoring, Observability, FIX Messaging, Fixed Income

A Senior Production Engineer with a background in Front Office Trading environments and strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is sought after by a global Investment Bank to join their FICC Production function, specifically within their REPO business line.

You will be directly involved in helping the team upskill and apply SRE principles, with a forward-thinking view on how to keep the production environment both highly stable and available for daily trading activity.

Primary responsibilities will be split across incident management & root cause analysis, working with development teams to resolve issues, whilst facing off to Front Office users to handle queries, provide progress reports and generally helping to recover from any technical issues.

You will also be directly involved in monitoring and observability, using tools like Geneos, Grafana and Splunk, helping to create an environment where issues are picked up and resolved as quickly as possible, with the long-term aim of minimum impact to the business and production stability.

To be successful, you will demonstrate:

• Strong knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering Principles and how to implement them
• Technical expertise in Linux, databases (preferably Oracle and KDB), Monitoring and Observability tooling
• Python and Shell Scripting skills for automation purposes
• Capability to work across end-to-end Production Support covering initial incident response, root cause, gap analysis, bug fixing through to full recovery and resolution
• Understanding of the trade life cycle from pre-to-post trade, FIX Messaging and experience facing off directly to the business, including Traders