Senior TechOps, Equities Platform
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London, Hybrid
£competitive + excellent bonus + benefits
International Capital Markets firm is scaling its London Equities platform and is hiring a Senior TechOps Associate to drive platform reliability, low-latency performance, and controlled change across OMS/EMS, eTrading/algo, market data, and exchange connectivity. You will sit close to the desk and act as the go-to owner for stability, incident response, and release safety.
Key Responsibilities:
End-to-end production reliability forequities trading systems(OMS/EMS, FIX gateways, algo/eTrading, market data, post-trade).
Reduced MTTD/MTTR via automation, clear SLAs, and robust RCAs/post-mortems.
Safer, faster releases (blue/green, canary, feature flags) in partnership with Trading, Quant, and Engineering.
Mature observability (logs/metrics/traces), capacity planning, and performance tuning for low-latency flows.
Strong production hygiene and controls aligned to MiFID II/MAR/best-ex.
Leadership of the London on-call rota and contribution to a follow-the-sun model.
Key Requirements:
TechOps/Production Engineering/SRE experience supportingequitiesplatforms.
Tooling exposure: Kubernetes/containers, CI/CD, Terraform, Datadog/Prometheus/Splunk/Geneos.
Practical understanding of market microstructure, exchange connectivity, and TCA/controls.
Composed, commercially aware communicator with traders and senior leadership.
Package & set-up
Competitive base + performance bonus, benefits, and flexible hybrid working.
A clear runway to platform ownership and team leadership.
London HQ; hybrid model.
Nice to haves
Low-latency tuning experience.
Experience with TCA and post-trade analytics.
Follow-the-sun/on-call leadership.
For a full consultation on this exciting new role, get in touch with ARC IT today!
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