Production Engineer

We're looking for a Production Engineer to join a London-based DevOps team! This is a hands-on engineering position supporting critical mid-to-back-office trading systems. You'll work across Linux infrastructure, production applications, deployment tooling and trading-data pipelines in an environment where reliability, accuracy and rapid problem-solving directly affect the business. The opportunity Working within a small, experienced engineering team, you'll take ownership of production reliability while building automation and tooling that reduces manual work and improves operational efficiency. Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting production trading systems and on-premises Linux infrastructure.
• Developing Python applications, automation and ETL pipelines.
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling.
• Managing containerised workloads using Docker, Podman or similar technologies.
• Responding to production incidents and leading investigations through to resolution.
• Performing root-cause analysis and maintaining operational documentation and runbooks.
• Monitoring pricing and reference-data pipelines used for trading, risk and P&L.
• Building automated reconciliation and data-quality checks.
• Supporting the onboarding of new financial instruments. What you'll bring
• Commercial experience in Production Engineering, SRE, DevOps, Systems Engineering or a similar position.
• Strong Python development and scripting skills.
• Experience supporting Linux-based production environments.
• Knowledge of Bash, SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git and container technologies.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across applications, infrastructure and data.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Grafana.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or another STEM discipline. Valuable experience
• Systematic trading, proprietary trading or financial systems.
• Market data, reference data, risk or P&L processes.
• Ansible or comparable configuration-management tools.
• Airflow, Dagster or similar orchestration frameworks.
• C++ development.
• Data-quality and reconciliation frameworks. What's offered
• A base salary of up to £140,000, depending on experience + performance-related bonus.
• Private medical and dental insurance.
• Life assurance, income protection and travel insurance.
• Employer pension contributions of up to 5% of base salary.
• 25 days of annual leave, plus bank holidays. Interested in learning more? Apply now and let's talk!