Senior FX Production Support Engineer

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment bank is seeking a Senior FX Production Support Engineer to join their Front Office FX technology team in London. This role is vital for supporting electronic FX trading platforms, ensuring system resilience, and optimizing operations while mentoring junior team members.

Qualifications

• Experience in production support, SRE, or DevOps within financial services.
• Strong technical skills in Linux/Unix, SQL, and scripting.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Respond to production incidents minimizing downtime.
• Enhance application health monitoring and implement automation.
• Drive cost optimization and manage resources for scalable operations.

Skills

Linux/Unix systems

SQL

Scripting

Monitoring tools

Python

Java

Cloud platforms

Containerization

CI/CD

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Job Description

A leading investment back are looking to hire a highly skilled and motivated Senior FX Production Support Engineer to join our dynamic Front Office FX technology team. This is a high-impact role supporting the bank’s electronic FX trading platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Incident Management: Respond rapidly to production incidents with data driven decision making, minimizing downtime and financial impact. Lead root cause analysis and conduct blameless post-mortems
• Monitoring & Automation: Enhance application health monitoring and implement automation to reduce manual intervention and improve system resilience
• System Optimization: Drive cost optimization and manage capacity resources to ensure efficient and scalable operations
• Collaboration: Partner with development teams to design and deploy fault-tolerant, scalable solutions aligned with business goals
• Governance & Compliance: Enforce and adhere to change, incident, and problem management policies, as well as bank specific non-financial risk frameworks
• Mentorship: Support the growth of junior team members and promote a culture of engineering excellence and continuous improvement

Key Requirements

• Proven experience in a production support, SRE, or DevOps role within a trading or financial services environment
• Strong technical skills in Linux/Unix systems, SQL, and scripting
• Strong experience with a programming such as Python, Java, etc
• Strong experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry, Corvil)
• Familiarity with cloud platforms, containerization (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker), and CI (Continuous Integration)/CD (continuous Delivery) pipelines
• Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle and fundamental trading systems and knowledge of FX related products and market structure and/or algorithmic trading advantageous.