MARGO is hiring an experienced ITS Application Services Engineer to join a Global Markets technology team. Youll support and enhance the low-latency infrastructure powering electronic trading systems - ensuring connectivity performance and reliability across FX and Fixed Income platforms.
Location: Hybrid Central London
Your mission:
Deliver and maintain a world-class low-latency trading environment - managing messaging middleware network connectivity observability tooling and capacity planning to meet front-office demands.
What youll do:
Connectivity & Monitoring Deploy and support global market connectivity (Solace/Tibco multicast TCP/IP) across 30 sitesImplement SRE principles: automated health checks alerting SLIs/SLOs and capacity forecasts
Incident & Performance Management Lead deep-dive post-incident analyses (e.g. market events) using packet captures (Wireshark/tcpdump/Corvil)Maintain dashboards (Geneos Prometheus Grafana) for proactive issue detection
Automation & Resiliency Build scripts (Python/Bash/PowerShell) and IaC for self-healing systems and reduced manual toilExecute lab-based testing and benchmarking for new connectivity solutions
Collaboration & Delivery Partner with global network platform and development teams to onboard applications and define standardsOwn change-management processes operational handoffs and documentation (topologies runbooks)
Technical fit what were looking for:
Strong background in low-latency networking: TCP/IP multicast traffic shaping performance tuningProven experience with messaging middleware (Solace 29West Tibco LBM) in performance-sensitive environmentsHands-on packet analysis using Wireshark tcpdump Corvil (custom decoder skills a bonus)Scripting/automation with Python Bash or PowerShellFamiliarity with observability platforms (ITRS Geneos Prometheus Grafana)Experience supporting real-time trading applications feed handlers matching enginesExcellent communicationable to translate technical metrics into business insights
Nice to have:
Exposure to FIX/market-data protocols and order-routing architectures
Hands-on use of CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools (Terraform Ansible)
Experience with capacity planning and error-budget management
Tech stack & skills:
Middleware: Solace/Tibco/LBM
Networking: TCP/IP multicast BGP/OSPF traffic shaping
Monitoring: ITRS Geneos Prometheus Grafana Corvil
Automation: Python Bash PowerShell IaC
Systems: Linux (Red Hat/CentOS) hybrid cloud infrastructure
Recruitment process:
Intro call with MARGO Talent Acquisition
Technical deep-dive with Margo consultant
Metting with the banks hiring team