Hybrid Production Engineer bei Systematica Investments
Systematica Investments · London, Vereinigtes Königreich · Hybrid
- Senior
- Optionales Büro in London
We are seeking a Production Engineer with strong systems engineering fundamentals and an operational mindset to join our global technology team. You will focus on the resilience, automation, and observability of production systems that power a mission-critical quantitative trading platform. The role is based in London and forms part of a follow-the-sun global support model.
This is not a pure support role — we’re looking for engineers who can write code to eliminate toil, improve reliability, and automate release, monitoring, and recovery processes.
Key Responsibilities
Primary Duties
Platform Engineering & Automation (Core SRE Focus – ~50%)
Platform Engineering & Automation (Core SRE Focus – ~50%)
- Build and maintain automated tools for deployment, health checks, alerts, and runbooks.
- Lead efforts in observability, including metrics instrumentation, logging, and dashboards.
- Develop self-healing mechanisms for recurring production issues.
- Continuously reduce manual operational work ("toil") through scripting.
Reliability Engineering & Incident Management (~30%)
- Monitor health of trading systems with a goal of proactive failure prevention.
- Own and improve incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems.
- Design and validate failover and disaster recovery strategies.
- Collaborate with developers to design robust, testable deployment pipelines.
Operations & Cross-Team Collaboration (~20%)
- Support trading operations during market hours, with occasional coverage through late shifts (to 11pm).
- Interface with internal users (trading, ops, quant teams) and external vendors for production-level concerns.
- Help guide releases during system maintenance windows with safe deployment practices.
- Maintain and expand documentation for system behavior, runbooks, and escalation flows.
Tech Stack & Tooling
- Languages: Python (primary), Bash, T-SQL
- OS/Infrastructure: Linux, Windows, Docker, AWS Cloud services
- Monitoring & Alerting: DataDog, Grafana, custom tooling
- Automation/CI/CD: Git, TeamCity, Ansible, Terraform (optional)
- Databases: MS SQL Server, Snowflake
General
- Any other duties commensurate with the post holder’s position and seniority; and
- All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational, statutory and regulatory policies and procedures.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Experience, Knowledge & Skills
- 5+ years in a production-facing engineering role within finance or other mission-critical tech domains.
- Proven experience with automation, observability, and incident response in distributed systems.
- Comfort with scripting and systems programming (Python, Bash).
- Experience with config management and container orchestration tools.
- Strong communication and debugging skills, especially under pressure.
Soft Skills & Attributes
- Analytical mindset and curiosity-driven troubleshooting.
- Calm, decisive demeanor during critical incidents.
- Empathy for both internal users and downstream systems.
- Bias toward eliminating root causes rather than treating symptoms.
Educational & Professional Qualifications
- Educated to degree (or equivalent) level or higher, preferably from a leading university.
- Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent field.
Benefits
Systematica Investments provides you with excellent benefits from day 1. We provide private medical insurance for you and your immediate family. We offer competitive salaries combined with an attractive bonus and pension plus free drinks and snacks at the office. We also offer paid parental leave with enhanced leave for mothers/primary carers.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
