Senior Production Support Engineer

MarketAxess; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MarketAxess, a leader in financial technology, is seeking a Production Support Engineer in London. The role focuses on optimizing production systems and ensuring reliable electronic trading platforms. Ideal candidates have extensive experience with monitoring tools like ITRS Geneos and a strong technical background in Python and SQL.

Benefits

Free Food

25 Days Annual Leave

Bonus Holiday after 5 Years

Private Medical Insurance

Tuition Assistance

Qualifications

• At least 7 years in production engineering or support.
• Minimum 5 years with ITRS Geneos monitoring systems.
• Strong expertise in Python and SQL.

Responsibilities

• Optimize production processes to enhance efficiency.
• Build monitoring systems to ensure system uptime.
• Provide technical support to production teams.

Skills

Automation

Incident Management

Performance Optimization

Interpersonal Skills

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Python

SQL

Linux/Bash

XML

Tools

ITRS Geneos

Grafana

Jira

Salesforce Service Cloud

Job description

About Us

MarketAxess is on a journey to digitally transform one of the world's largest financial markets, enabling the shift from analog, phone-based trading to a fully electronic marketplace. Why does this matter? Because our platform makes trading fixed-income more accessible, ultimately improving transparency, efficiency, and competition in the marketplace. Changing the way an established industry transacts is no easy feat. There will be twists and turns, because no one's ever done this before. But now, more than 2,000 clients around the world rely on our solutions, and that number is only expected to grow in the years ahead. We know where we're going. How we get there is up to us. Join us and help Take Us There.

The Role

This role is to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of our production systems. You will focus on implementing engineering principles to automate operations, enhance system reliability and monitoring, reduce repetitive manual effort, and improve the overall client and user experience. As a Production Support Engineer, this person will be responsible for designing and maintaining monitoring and infrastructure, tools, automation, and other technology. By leveraging expertise in automation, incident management, and performance optimization, the successful candidate will contribute to building robust and resilient systems that support business goals.

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of electronic trading systems as well as experience building monitoring solutions to increase the reliability and performance of production electronic trading systems.

How You'll Help Take Us There

• Production Process Optimization: Develop, implement, and continuously improve production processes to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and ensure product quality.
• Build and enhance monitoring systems to provide visibility into the system health and uptime.
• Provide technical expertise and support to production teams, troubleshooting issues and implementing solutions to minimize downtime and improve operational reliability.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the production engineering and support functions. Stay abreast of industry trends and advancements and apply relevant innovations to enhance operational performance.
• Communicate technical plans, progress, and issues to stakeholders, including technical and non-technical audiences.
• Present technical designs, project plans, and status updates to various stakeholders, including senior management.
• Identify areas for process improvement and implement changes to increase efficiency, productivity, and quality.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, design documents, and technical guides.
• Ensure compliance with industry regulations, company policies, and technical standards.

Involvement in production support responsibilities will also include:

• Provide cover to the Live and Test trading systems, ensuring smooth running of trading system servers and services
• Form part of the global support roster to assist in our follow the sun model. Participate in weekend support rosters
• Provide technical support to the external Dealer and Client users of the MarketAxess GUI application and other MA products
• Provide 2nd line support services for client services and account management teams
• Support external users of the API interfaces
• Monitoring system servers and ensuring appropriate monitoring is in place
• Raise and track issues through the use of the Jira ticketing mechanism.

What We're Looking For

• A minimum of 7 years of experience in production engineering, production support, or a related field.
• A minimum 5 years' experience in building and customizing ITRS Geneos monitoring systems.
• Experience with Grafana also preferred.
• Proficiency with Jira and Salesforce Service Cloud
• Proven experience in implementing engineering projects, with the ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and deliver results.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience with high-speed, high-volume transactional trading systems
• Strong Python, Linux/Bash, SQL, and XML skills
• Experience using FIX Protocol

What You Can Expect from Us

• Central Location: based at our city offices near St Paul's.
• Free Food: We provide lunch each day of the week when the employee attends the office via our vendor Feedr as well as breakfast cereals, office snacks and drinks from our free vending machines
• Paid Time Off: 25 days annual leave entitlement plus 2 charity days
• Reward for your service: We offer a two-week bonus holiday after completing each 5 years of service
• Core benefits: Besides competitive standard benefits package we offer private medical (PMI) for family, Cash Plan, health screenings, dental cover, 6X life assurance, critical illness cover, income protection, pension, car leasing (Tusker electronic cars), reimbursement for wellness stipend, interest free season ticket loan and a "Share Incentive" plan
• Tuition Assistance and Professional Training: Benefit from on-demand learning, boot camps, and opportunities to attend conferences

Collaboration and innovation are integral to our success - it's how we got to where we are and how we'll maintain and grow our competitive advantage. We believe this best happens in an office environment. Employees in Technology work in the office 2 or more days a week. This approach still allows for flexibility depending on the business function you work within but also helps us maintain a collaborative office environment long-term.

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