Responsible for managing low-latency infrastructure for electronic trading systems, enhancing connectivity, performance, and monitoring across platforms.
MARGO is hiring an experienced ITS Application Services Engineer to join a Global Markets technology team. You’ll support and enhance the low-latency infrastructure powering electronic trading systems - ensuring connectivity, performance, and reliability across FX and Fixed Income platforms.
📍 Location: Hybrid, Central London
🎯 Your mission:
Deliver and maintain a world-class, low-latency trading environment - managing messaging middleware, network connectivity, observability tooling, and capacity planning to meet front-office demands.
💼 What you’ll do:
Connectivity & Monitoring Deploy and support global market connectivity (Solace/Tibco, multicast, TCP/IP) across 30+ sitesImplement SRE principles: automated health checks, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, and capacity forecasts
Incident & Performance Management Lead deep-dive post-incident analyses (e.g., market events), using packet captures (Wireshark/tcpdump/Corvil)Maintain dashboards (Geneos, Prometheus, Grafana) for proactive issue detection
Automation & Resiliency Build scripts (Python/Bash/PowerShell) and IaC for self-healing systems and reduced manual toilExecute lab-based testing and benchmarking for new connectivity solutions
Collaboration & Delivery Partner with global network, platform, and development teams to onboard applications and define standardsOwn change-management processes, operational handoffs, and documentation (topologies, runbooks)
🧠 Technical fit – what we’re looking for:
Strong background in low-latency networking: TCP/IP, multicast, traffic shaping, performance tuningProven experience with messaging middleware (Solace, 29West, Tibco, LBM) in performance-sensitive environmentsHands-on packet analysis using Wireshark, tcpdump, Corvil (custom decoder skills a bonus)Scripting/automation with Python, Bash, or PowerShellFamiliarity with observability platforms (ITRS Geneos, Prometheus, Grafana)Experience supporting real-time trading applications, feed handlers, matching enginesExcellent communication—able to translate technical metrics into business insights
🌟 Nice to have:
Exposure to FIX/market-data protocols and order-routing architectures
Hands-on use of CI/CD pipelines and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible)
Experience with capacity planning and error-budget management
🛠 Tech stack & skills:
Middleware: Solace/Tibco/LBM
Networking: TCP/IP, multicast, BGP/OSPF, traffic shaping
Monitoring: ITRS Geneos, Prometheus, Grafana, Corvil
Automation: Python, Bash, PowerShell, IaC
Systems: Linux (Red Hat/CentOS), hybrid cloud infrastructure
📌 Recruitment process:
Intro call with MARGO Talent Acquisition
Technical deep-dive with Margo consultant
Metting with the bank’s hiring team
Top Skills
Solace,Tibco,Linux,Python,Bash,Powershell,Wireshark,Tcpdump,Corvil,Itrs Geneos,Prometheus,Grafana
MARGO London, England Office
20-22 Bedford Row, , United Kingdom , London, United Kingdom, WC1 R4JS,
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