Foreign Exchange Production Engineering Lead

Your key responsibilities

• Maintaining overall availability of the trading platform
• Leading a team of 10+ individuals to drive SRE principles, improved reliability of our platforms and TOIL reduction
• Responding to user queries and requests in a timely manner; being a Subject Matter Expert
• Identifying, investigating, and resolving application/infrastructure issues impacting the business; whilst ensuring communication updates provided at regular intervals
• Ensuring internal postmortems include strategic follow-ups, in a bid to reduce repeat occurrences of issues & incidents
• Identifying and implementing potential automation opportunities such as self-healing scripts to reduce manual tasks, increase efficiency, and improve resiliency
• Conducting Start of Week/Day checks, observing and acting on monitoring alerts, and keeping oversight of high-profile technology processes, particularly those relating to exchange obligations
• Acting as the gatekeeper to production; critically reviewing all changes prior to deployments and conducting post-change validation checks (may include some Out of Hours activities)
• Working closely with Project Managers, Functional Business Analysts, and Developers to introduce new functionality and enhancements to the trading platform
• Setting up new & maintaining existing Monitoring environments; strong focus on observability for early issue detection of latency, capacity, etc
• Participating in Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Plan exercises (may include some Out of Hours activities)
• Active participation in local, regional, and global process improvement initiatives
• Engagement in wider Technology forums, ie Engineering Days, Hackathons, Data Science events, etc

Your skills and experience

• Prior leadership experience essential; managing teams of 5+
• 10+ 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/CD pipelines
• Have a strong understanding of the trade lifecycle and fundamental trading systems. Knowledge of FX related products and market structure and/or algorithmic trading advantageous.
• Exceptional verbal and written skills, to communicate effectively with business users, technology peers, and senior management alike
• Direct trade floor experience is advantageous
• Self-motivated, proactive in nature, and ability to work independently; as well as collaboratively in a global organisation
• Proven ability to leverage AI tools to enhance productivity, optimise workflows to solve business problems, while applying critical judgment to ensure responsible and ethical use of data and AI outputs.

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