Senior FX Production Support Engineer

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 language 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.