Graduate IT Operations Engineer – Trading / Market Data

Intellect Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in financial technology is seeking a Graduate IT Operations Engineer to join their specialized team. This role offers an exciting opportunity to work with real-time network performance monitoring in a fast-paced environment. You'll gain hands-on experience and mentorship from industry experts while contributing to critical systems that impact trading and market data delivery. With a hybrid working model and a focus on collaboration, this position is perfect for technically curious graduates eager to kick-start their careers.

Benefits

Mentorship from experienced engineers

Exposure to real-time systems

Collaborative engineering environment

Qualifications

• Entry level position for recent graduates.
• Hands-on experience with real-time network performance monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Support systems for market data delivery and trade execution.
• Work in a fast-paced, low-latency environment.

Skills

Bash

Python

Networking fundamentals

Tools

InfluxDB

Kapacitor

Telegraf

Grafana

Job description

Graduate IT Operations Engineer – Trading / Market Data

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Graduate IT Operations Engineer – Trading / Market Data

Are you a bright, technically curious graduate looking to break into one of the most demanding and exciting areas of tech? We’re hiring a Graduate IT Operations Engineer to join a highly specialised team working on real-time network performance monitoring for global financial trading systems.

This is your chance to work in a fast-paced, low-latency environment where precision and speed are critical, and the systems you support play a key role in market data delivery and trade execution at scale.

You’ll be working alongside some of the sharpest minds in the industry, gaining hands-on experience with cutting-edge infrastructure, tooling, and observability platforms.

What You'll Work With:

• Bash & Python scripting
• Networking fundamentals (switches, routers, packet analysis with tcpdump, Wireshark)
• InfluxDB, Kapacitor, Telegraf, Grafana (desirable but not essential)

What You'll Get:

• Exposure to real-time, mission-critical systems
• A chance to grow in a high-performance, collaborative engineering environment
• Mentorship from experienced engineers in a domain where milliseconds count
• Hybrid working model with occasional office visits

This is a fantastic opportunity to kick-start your career in trading tech, working on systems that truly make an impact.

Ready to level up your career and learn from the best? Apply now or get in touch to find out more.

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Financial Services and Technology, Information and Media