TechOps Analyst, Equities

TechOps Analyst , Equities London, Hybrid £competitive excellent bonus benefits International Capital Markets firm is scaling its London Equities platform and is hiring a 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 for equities 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 supporting equities trade floor. FIX protocol experience. Unix experience. 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.