Production Engineer – Trading & Electronic Trading Systems

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 13 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Production Engineer Trading & Electronic Trading Systems

Join MARGO in the UK (London)

MARGO is a tech-native consultancy delivering high value-added IT expertise to the financial services industry.

We operate in complex Front Office environments where trading activity relies on highly available performant and resilient production systems. Our consultants work at the intersection of trading development and infrastructure teams to ensure that critical platforms run reliably under real-time market constraints.

Joining MARGO means working in demanding production environments while benefiting from a human-sized structure close follow-up and tailored training paths.

Business Context

You will work within Front Office Production and Trading Technology environments supporting live trading and electronic trading platforms.

These environments are production-critical operate in real time and require strong ownership of system stability performance and incident management. The role involves close interaction with traders developers IT support and infrastructure teams.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Front Office Production Engineer to operate stabilise and continuously improve trading and electronic trading systems.

The role is strongly technical and production-oriented. It combines hands-on system operation deep investigation of incidents performance optimisation and automation with close proximity to Front Office users.

This position suits profiles who enjoy owning systems in production understanding how applications behave under load and working across teams to improve reliability and performance.

Key Responsibilities

Production Ownership & Reliability

Operate and support Front Office trading systems in production

Ensure high availability stability and performance during market hours

Own incident management from detection to resolution and root cause analysis

Participate in on-call or production support rotations when required

Contribute to post-incident reviews and long-term remediation actions

System Investigation & Performance

Investigate complex production issues across applications operating systems and databases

Perform log analysis system diagnostics and performance troubleshooting

Analyse latency throughput and resource utilisation

Work closely with development teams to identify and resolve production bottlenecks

Automation & Tooling

Develop scripts and tools to automate operational tasks and investigations

Improve monitoring alerting and observability of production systems

Contribute to deployment release and change automation

Reduce manual interventions through standardisation and automation

Change & Continuous Improvement

Participate in releases deployments and production changes

Support testing and validation in pre-production environments

Continuously improve system resilience scalability and operability

Collaborate with infrastructure and network teams on production topics

Technical Environment

Core Technologies & Tools

Front Office trading and electronic trading platforms

Linux / UNIX environments (advanced usage troubleshooting scripting)

Relational databases and SQL (production investigations data validation)

Windows environments

Scripting and automation (Shell Python Perl or similar)

Monitoring logging and alerting tools

Valued Technical Exposure

Performance and capacity monitoring

Release and deployment processes

Interaction with development infrastructure and network teams

Understanding of market data and execution systems

Required Experience & Skills

Essential

Experience in production engineering IT operations or trading support environments

Strong Linux / UNIX knowledge in production contexts

Solid SQL skills for production analysis and investigations

Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills

Ability to work in real-time production-critical environments

Clear communication and strong ownership mindset

Ability to work both independently and collaboratively

Valued (but not restrictive)

Front Office or trading system exposure

Experience with scripting automation or tooling development

Understanding of financial markets and trading concepts

Desire to evolve towards more technical or platform-oriented roles

Career Development Opportunities

Depending on interests and performance the role may evolve towards:

Senior production or platform engineering roles

DevOps or reliability engineering positions

Closer interaction with development or architecture teams

Why Join MARGO

Access to demanding Front Office trading environments

Strong focus on production ownership and system reliability

Highly technical roles close to live trading activity

Human-sized consultancy with close support and tailored training

Long-term career opportunities across production engineering and development

Please note - We do not offer visa sponsorship for this position.

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Production Engineer Trading & Electronic Trading SystemsJoin MARGO in the UK (London)MARGO is a tech-native consultancy delivering high value-added IT expertise to the financial services industry.We operate in complex Front Office environments where trading activity relies on highly available perfo...