Technical Operations Associate, Equities

Senior TechOps, Equities Platform

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 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 platforms.
• 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!