We are looking for an experienced Production Engineering Lead to drive Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Production Support for Front Office Foreign Exchange (FX) trading applications in a fast-paced financial services environment.
This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on ensuring the availability, stability, performance, and resilience of mission-critical, real-time trading platforms. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in front-office trading systems, production engineering, incident management, automation, and team leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead SRE and Production Support for Front Office FX/Trading applications, ensuring high availability, stability, and performance.
- Manage and mentor a team of 5+ engineers, driving operational excellence and continuous improvement.
- Lead major incident management, root cause analysis, problem management, and proactive risk mitigation.
- Drive automation, monitoring, observability, and operational resilience initiatives.
- Collaborate closely with traders, developers, infrastructure teams, and business stakeholders to resolve complex production issues.
- Monitor and optimize real-time trading platforms, ensuring seamless trade execution and business continuity.
- Improve system reliability through SRE best practices, capacity planning, performance tuning, and service-level objectives.
- Support front-to-back trading workflows and contribute to platform scalability and modernization.
Key Skills & Experience
- 14+ years of experience in Production Support, SRE, or Production Engineering within financial services, preferably in a front-office trading environment.
- Strong hands-on experience supporting FX trading applications and mission-critical front-office systems.
- Proven technical leadership experience, including managing teams of 5+ engineers.
- Strong understanding of the trade lifecycle, trading systems, and front-office business workflows.
- Strong technical skills in Linux/Unix, SQL, scripting, and programming languages such as Python, Java, C++, C#, or .NET.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, OpenTelemetry, or Corvil.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and automation frameworks.
- Excellent incident management, troubleshooting, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Preferred Experience
- Direct trading-floor or front-office business interaction.
- Knowledge of FX products, market structure, and algorithmic trading.
- Experience improving the reliability and performance of low-latency, real-time trading platforms.
Ideal Candidate: A strong technical leader with deep experience in Front Office Trading Application Support, SRE, and Production Engineering, who can combine hands-on troubleshooting expertise with team leadership and a proactive reliability mindset.