POSITION OVERVIEW

Job Title Production Engineer
Location Birmingham
Corporate Title Assistant Vice President
This specific role is with Securities Settlements Technology (Production) team – part of the Post-Trade Automation (PTA) organization, that is spread across the globe (Cary, Birmingham, Bangalore, Pune, Singapore, and Tokyo) and is responsible for the smooth running of a platform to assist day-to-day Fixed Income & Currencies Settlement Operations globally. You will be working from the Birmingham office to support the back office operations team, providing application expertise and resolving technical failures with the applications.
You will liaise with application development teams to understand the applications, the releases that are planned and assist development teams in performing root cause analysis and inform the operations team on the ongoing issues via regular communications. You will also perform weekend activities on a Rota basis to deploy software releases on production environment, perform application failover and sanity checks during data center disaster recovery activities. In addition to that you will explore opportunities to automate manual tasks to reduce Toil.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience of supporting Fixed Income settlement applications in a financial industry
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Knowledge of Bitbucket, Infrastructure, Networking, middleware (MQ/Kafka)
• Good understanding/ working experience on Cloud technology, proficiency in Unix, Shell Scripting and SQL
• Working experience on monitoring tools (Geneos/ NewRelic (preferred)
• Experience working with production support team (with familiarity to the latest Information Technology Infrastructure Library framework & concepts)

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• Provide Fixed Income operations with application Subject Matter Expert knowledge
• Drive incident resolution for issues with settlement applications
• Provide clear communications to business and technologists on incidents and follow-ups
• Participate in improvements to Fixed Income Securities application monitoring and automation, drive down Toil on your supported platforms.
• Work with application developers to improve application stability.