Production Support & DevOps Engineer

Waterloo, United Kingdom | Posted on 26/10/2026

“Deloitte sets therequirements for the assignment. Rockford Resourcing acts as the agency onbehalf of Deloitte and is responsible for sourcing candidates to fulfil theassignment. Successful candidates will be employed by Rockford Payroll.Rockford Payroll is responsible for the Associate’s employment, pay andapplicable employment-related processes.”

The Role

As aProduction Support / DevOps Engineer, you will be a hands-on member of a small,high-performing team responsible for supporting global derivatives tradingproduction environments. The role will be driven by both product teampriorities and engineering backlog items, including improvements and technicaldebt reduction.

KeyResponsibilities

• Manage critical end-to-end tradingworkflows proactively, improving stability and resilience in collaboration withdelivery and infrastructure teams.
• Support troubleshooting and issueresolution across development, support, and technical business users.
• Act as a subject matter expert fortrading systems initiatives.
• Support scalable algorithmic tradingtechnology in a compliant and flexible manner.
• Participate in the on-call rota as partof a global engineering team.
• Provide rapid incident response tomaintain continuous trading operations.
• Own system monitoring, reliabilityimprovements, and proactive troubleshooting.
• Perform root cause analysis from issueidentification through to resolution or bug creation.
• Work with traders, developers, andstakeholders in a high-pressure trading room environment.

Experience& Skills Required

• 6+ years’ experience in CommodityTrading and/or Capital Markets / Investment Banks.
• Strong understanding of major globalfutures exchanges.
• Knowledge of the full exchange-tradedderivatives trade lifecycle.
• Experience with OMS and tradingplatforms and related workflows.
• Knowledge of market data providers suchas Bloomberg and Refinitiv.
• Experience with liquidity aggregationplatforms.
• 3+ years’ experience with realtimemarket data distribution platforms, feedhandlers, and enterprise-levelconsolidated feeds.
• 3+ years’ experience with time seriesanalytic frameworks such as kdb or shakti.
• Front office application support andvendor management experience.
• Solid FIX engineering experience (3+years).
• Experience with exchange and vendorcertification.
• Knowledge of third-party networks andEMS/OMS vendors such as TT, NYFIX, Bloomberg, and TradingScreen.
• Experience debugging messaging systemsand network protocols such as TCP and multicast.
• Operational experience supportingmarket data distribution platforms, including RTDS and DACS, ADH, and ADScomponents.
• Knowledge of multicast data trafficmanagement, arbitration, and message queueing.
• Experience with algo regulation, audit,compliance, and RTS6 is highly desirable.
• Ability to develop scripts and improveways of working is highly desirable.
• Excellent communication skills and theability to work under demanding deadlines with changing priorities.
• Proactive, self-motivated, flexible,and resilient under pressure.