Site Reliability Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join a global financial institution, supporting the stability, performance and availability of its FX trading platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide production support for business-critical FX trading applications and infrastructure.
• Investigate and resolve production incidents, perform root cause analysis and implement preventive measures.
• Monitor application performance, system availability and production alerts.
• Develop automation scripts and tools to improve system reliability and reduce manual intervention.
• Support application deployments, change management and disaster recovery activities.
• Work closely with development, infrastructure and trading teams to troubleshoot issues and deliver system improvements.

Mandatory Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Production Support, SRE or DevOps, with prior exposure to FX or related asset classes.
• Strong working knowledge of Unix/Linux, SQL and networking from a production support perspective.
• Experience with scripting or programming languages such as Python, Shell or Java.
• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and application release processes.
• Experience in incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across technical and business teams.

Good to Have

• Strong understanding of FX products, trading systems and trade lifecycle.
• Experience with KDB/KDB+ databases.
• Knowledge of FIX messaging protocol.
• Previous experience supporting front-office trading desks / trade floor environments.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus or Geneos.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines.

This is a 12-month full-time contract role - with visibility for renewals.