Production Engineer (SRE & Automation) for Financial Systems

Provn; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Provn in London is seeking a talented Production Engineer to join its technology team. The role combines SRE, Linux systems engineering, production infrastructure, automation and software development to keep critical systems reliable.

You will work with software engineers, infra specialists and other technical stakeholders to improve deployment processes, monitoring and resilience in a fast-paced financial services environment. A hands-on, engineering-led mindset is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in SRE or Production Engineering roles in technology environments.
• Strong Linux fundamentals with production system experience.
• Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies.
• Scripting or programming in Python and Bash.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools.
• Strong debugging and analytical problem-solving skills.
• Ability to collaborate with software and infrastructure teams.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Exposure to financial services or trading environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain reliability, stability and performance of production systems and apps.
• Investigate complex issues, identify root causes, implement engineering fixes.
• Develop automation and tooling to improve operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with software engineers to support deployments and maintenance.
• Support Linux-based environments, containers and related infrastructure.
• Assist with software deployments, upgrades and infra changes.
• Develop monitoring and troubleshooting scripts and utilities.
• Monitor performance and proactively identify issues for resilience.
• Work with tech teams to resolve production challenges and improve practices.
• Improve deployment processes, monitoring and operational practices.
• Support adoption of new technologies and platform enhancements.
• Take ownership of technical problems and drive engineering excellence.

Skills

SRE/DevOps

Linux

Automation

Python

Shell scripting

CI/CD

Observability

Cloud

Job description

Provn in London is seeking a talented Production Engineer to join its technology team. The role combines SRE, Linux systems engineering, production infrastructure, automation and software development to keep critical systems reliable.

You will work with software engineers, infra specialists and other technical stakeholders to improve deployment processes, monitoring and resilience in a fast-paced financial services environment. A hands-on, engineering-led mindset is essential.