Production Engineer - Fintech DevOps & SRE London

Oxford Knight

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Oxford Knight is seeking a Production Engineer to blend Level-1 support with advanced DevOps. You will diagnose production issues, design reconciliation tools, and build monitoring dashboards with DataDog and Grafana to improve system latency and reliability.

The role requires strong Python, Unix and PostgreSQL skills, plus experience with APIs/WebSockets and incident response. Collaboration and continuous learning are emphasized.

Qualifications

5+ years in L1 support, DevOps or SRE, fintech preferred.
Experience designing monitoring/alerting with DataDog and Grafana.
Strong troubleshooting of REST APIs and WebSockets.
Ability to manage multiple priorities and ambiguity.
Experience with incident response protocols.
Proficient in Python, Unix and PostgreSQL.
Knowledge of Kafka, CockroachDB, FastAPI, GraphQL, Snowflake, Redis, QuestDB.
Experience with automation and reconciliation processes.

Responsibilities

Provide production environment support, diagnose problems, and update internal customers.
Design, develop and maintain reconciliation apps across digital/traditional trade capture.
Develop monitoring dashboards and alerts to address latency and issues.
Build tooling and monitoring to enable post-release validation.
Serve as incident coordinator for production incidents on core platform.

Skills

L1 Support

DevOps

SRE

DataDog

Grafana

REST APIs

WebSockets

Python

Unix

PostgreSQL

Kafka

CockroachDB

FastAPI

GraphQL

Snowflake

Redis

QuestDB

Automation

Reconciliation

Tools