City Of London, England
Job Summary
About the Role
The Dealer-to-Client (D2C) platform is a mission-critical, real-time trading system supporting Rates, Credit, GEM, Repo and ETF businesses. To future-proof the platform and ensure it can support the next decade of business innovation and regulatory demands, we are initiating a strategic modernisation programme — beginning with the migration of our services to new, more powerful infrastructure.
Job Description
You will work on the migration of the D2C platform services from existing infrastructure to new hardware, ensuring minimal disruption to live trading operations.
Key Responsibilities
Your Key Responsibilities
Document the current D2C service landscape, identifying all services and their existing host dependencies
Collaborate with the infrastructure team to specify, size and procure replacement hosts
Collaborate with the infrastructure team to provision and configure new hosts, ensuring all required runtimes, software, networking and security requirements are met
Plan and execute the end-to-end migration of D2C services to new infrastructure, including rollback planning, environment validation and post-migration sign-off
Your Skills and Experience
Solid Core Java Skills - Good understanding of Java fundamentals including object-oriented programming, collections, exception handling and concurrency.
Integration, API Development and Databases - Experience building and deploying event-driven and RESTful APIs, with foundational knowledge of SQL and relational database design
Infrastructure and DevOps - Hands-on experience with Linux-based server environments, scripting (Bash/Python) and provisioning/configuration tooling (e.g. Ansible or equivalent). Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. TeamCity or equivalent) and build tools such as Maven or Gradle
Containerisation and Orchestration - Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes, including deploying and managing containerised Java services
Monitoring and Observability - Experience with monitoring and alerting tooling such as Geneos, Grafana and Prometheus or equivalent, with an appreciation of what good operational visibility looks like for a trading platform
Skill Requirements
Solid Core Java Skills - Good understanding of Java fundamentals including object-oriented programming, collections, exception handling and concurrency.
Integration, API Development and Databases - Experience building and deploying event-driven and RESTful APIs, with foundational knowledge of SQL and relational database design
Other Requirements
You will work on the migration of the D2C platform services from existing infrastructure to new hardware, ensuring minimal disruption to live trading operations.
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