Trading Operations Engineer

The Opportunity

We’re partnered with a high-performance, tech-driven trading firm looking to hire a Trading Operations Engineer to support their global trading systems during APAC hours.

This position aligns with early APAC mornings (approximately 7am – 3pm SGT / 8am – 4pm JST / 9am-5pm AEST), covering overnight trading from a Dubai perspective. You’ll play a key role in keeping production systems stable, responding to real-time incidents, and working closely with traders and engineers to ensure uninterrupted trading activity.

If you enjoy operating close to live systems, handling time-critical issues, and working in a fast-paced environment, this role offers strong ownership and impact.

Key Responsibilities

Provide dedicated off-hours coverage to maintain high trading uptime

Act as the first responder for production and infrastructure incidents during your shift

Collaborate closely with trading and engineering teams to minimise downtime and improve resolution times

Monitor system health, performance, and alerts using modern observability tools

Contribute to reliability best practices within an SRE-style environment

Drive improvements in automation, tooling, and operational workflows

Required Experience

Strong Linux fundamentals including shell usage, system debugging, and networking tools

Good understanding of networking concepts and troubleshooting connectivity issues

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes fundamentals (pods, scheduling, debugging)

Experience managing configurations using Helm or similar tooling

Comfortable working in a 24/7 environment with an incident-response mindset

Ability to read and debug Python code in production

Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana

Nice to Have

Exposure to structured incident management approaches

Experience with GitOps and deployment tools (e.g. ArgoCD)

Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, VPCs, EC2)

Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform)

Experience querying ClickHouse for performance analysis

Understanding of Kafka or similar messaging systems

What’s on Offer

Remote-first working environment

Flexible and supportive culture

Opportunity to work within a fast-growing, cutting-edge trading environment

Regular global offsites and team workations

Shift Alignment (Indicative)

Singapore / Hong Kong / China: 7am – 3pm

Japan / Korea: 8am – 4pm

India: 4:30am – 12:30pm

Australia (East Coast): 9am – 5pm

If you’d like to learn more, feel free to reach out for a confidential conversation.