Trading Production Engineer

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

Desirable Skills

• 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