SRE Lead - FX Trading (Investment Bank)

Site Reliability Engineer – DevOps – Production Support - FX Trading

Our client, a reputable name in the Investment Banking sector, is looking to hire a Site Reliability Engineer to join a high-performing FX Production Engineering team supporting mission-critical trading and risk systems – including a highly complex, ultra-low latency algorithmic platform. This newly created role will focus on driving automation, reducing manual operational overhead, and maturing the SRE culture across the FX technology estate.

You'll play a key part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of a real-time trading environment used by both internal and external clients. While production support remains an important aspect, this position is heavily weighted toward improving observability, driving proactive engineering practices, and developing tooling to eliminate repetitive manual tasks. You'll collaborate closely with developers, traders, and global colleagues to make meaningful changes to how the environment is monitored, managed, and scaled.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the development of automation and monitoring solutions to improve system resilience and eliminate recurring manual work
• Own and evolve observability practices using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Geneos, Corvil, etc.
• Engage directly with senior traders and engineers to troubleshoot complex trading system issues and improve end-to-end workflows
• Drive post-incident reviews and implement lasting fixes to reduce future risk and downtime
• Design and implement scalable infrastructure solutions in alignment with business objectives and regulatory requirements
• Guide junior team members and help shape the SRE strategy within FX globally

Required Skills:

• Hands-on SRE/DevOps experience in a trading or financial services environment
• Strong Linux/Unix administration skills with solid scripting experience (Python, Bash, or Java)
• Background in supporting real-time trading systems and a good grasp of the trade lifecycle
• Experience with containerisation (Kubernetes/Docker), CI/CD pipelines, and GCP or similar cloud platforms
• Strong communication skills – able to engage directly with stakeholders across tech and the trading floor
• Familiarity with FX trading platforms or low-latency environments is highly desirable
• Experience working with databases (Oracle, SQL) is a plus

This is a unique opportunity to join an innovative organisation to define and implement your own SRE ideas across a high-impact area of the bank. If the opportunity to build a more resilient and automated FX production estate with support from leadership interests you, this could be a great fit for your next move.

The Bank operate a hybrid working environment – 3 days in the office, 2 days a week form home. The salary for this role is around the £120k-£130k + benefits and a non-discretionary bonus.