About the Role
As DevOps Engineer, you will be a hands-on Engineer and a member of a small high performing team responsible for global derivatives trading production environments. Your work will be driven both by product teams and engineering team backlogs of improvements and tech debt.
Responsibilities
•Ensure proactive management of critical end-to-end workflows, continuously improving stability and resilience through close collaboration with delivery and infrastructure teams
•Assist with troubleshooting and issue resolution across development, support, and technical business users
•Serve as a subject matter expert for trading systems initiatives
•Hands-on experience in supporting scalable algorithmic trading technology in a compliant and flexible way
•Being part of the on-call rota, working as part of a global team of development engineers
Requirements
•Solid track record in application deployment best practices
•10 years+ experience with Front Office application support and vendor management
•Rapid incident response to maintain continuous trading operations, turning quick fixes into robust, scalable solutions
•Proactive system monitoring and troubleshooting, owning reliability improvements and ensuring their successful delivery
•Understanding of trading lifecycle, including order capture & execution, allocation workflow, settlement, and compliance requirements
•Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyze complex data sets and propose innovative solutions
•Strong technical skills in scripting, Python, PowerShell, C#, SQL or other programming languages
•8 years+ solid relevant FIX Engineering experience
•Proven experience with exchange and vendor certification
•Knowledge of Third Party Networks and EMS/OMS software vendors (e.g., TT, NYFIX, Bloomberg, TradingScreen)
•8 years+ operational experience in supporting market data distribution platforms, such as Real Time Distribution Systems (RTDS) knowledge for DACS, ADH & ADS components
•Knowledge of Multicast data traffic management, arbitration and message queueing
•5 years+ operational experience in supporting time series frameworks such as kdb, shakti
Nice to Have
•Experience of Algo regulation, audit and compliance & RTS6 is highly desirable
•Experience in messaging systems, and experience debugging network protocols such as TCP, multicast
Conditions
•Contract Location: London Hybrid
•Contract Duration: 5 months
•Contract Start Date: Immediate
•Contract Classification: Inside IR35
•Traditional Daily Rate: £700
•Agreed Contract Rate (ACR): £540.09
•Equivalent Annual Salary: £140,424.06
•Payroll provider: Rockford Payroll Info for Contingent Workers - Rockford Pay
