A global trading business is looking for a talented Trading Production Engineer to join there high-performing technology team in New York. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the stability, performance, and reliability of mission-critical trading systems operating in a fast-paced, real-time environment.
You will work closely with traders, developers, and infrastructure teams to support and enhance systems that demand extremely high availability and low latency.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain and support production trading systems with a focus on uptime, resilience, and performance
- Monitor system health, respond to incidents, and perform root cause analysis
- Collaborate with development teams to improve system reliability and release processes
- Automate operational tasks and build tools to enhance system observability
- Manage deployments, releases, and change processes in production environments
- Optimise system performance, including latency and throughput improvements
- Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions
- Participate in on-call rotation and provide out-of-hours support when required
Required Skills & Experience
- Proven experience in a Production Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar role
- Strong Linux/Unix systems knowledge
- Proficiency in Python
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack)
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling
- Solid understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing)
- Strong troubleshooting skills in complex, distributed systems
- Ability to work effectively under pressure in a fast-paced environment
- Experience in financial services, trading, or low-latency environments
- Knowledge of high-frequency trading systems or real-time data pipelines
- Experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Understanding of incident management and post-mortem practices
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