HSBC

Dev/Ops Engineer, Fixed Income e-Trading

HSBC$120K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree, ideally in a quantitative discipline.
  • Experience in production support / SRE / DevOps for electronic trading platforms.
  • Understanding of Fixed Income products and eTrading workflows.
  • Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems.
  • Hands-on scripting/programming experience for diagnostics and automation.
  • Experience with monitoring/observability tooling and operational automation.
  • Strong communication skills for engagement with business users and technical teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own production support outcomes for Rates and Credit eTrading during the New York trading day.
  • Monitor and improve platform health, proactively identifying risks and driving remediation.
  • Develop automated monitoring tools for early issue detection.
  • Support electronic execution workflows across various venues and protocols.
  • Lead troubleshooting efforts across pricing, market data, and order management systems.
  • Partner with quants and engineering teams for production fixes and readiness.
  • Manage change and release activities, ensuring controlled deployments.

Benefits

  • Access to tailored professional development opportunities.
  • Robust Wellness Hub.
  • Generous volunteerism policy and matching gift program.
  • Comprehensive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives.
  • Supportive Employee Resource Groups promoting networking and development.
Full Job Description
This is a hands-on role responsible for production management and business-facing technical support for HSBC's in-house Fixed Income eTrading platforms, within the eRisk Operations function. The role will support primarily New York trading day, working closely with Trading, Sales, Quant teams, and Middle Office/Operations to maintain platform stability, performance, and availability.

You'll support end-to-end electronic execution workflows, including algo trading, streaming and RFQ, ensuring incidents are managed effectively and that changes are introduced in a controlled, low-risk manner. The role operates within a regional and global follow-the-sun support model, delivering services under a DevOps-aligned IT service delivery approach.

Weekend and holiday support may be required on a rota basis.

As our Dev/Ops engineer, you will:
  • Own production support outcomes for Rates and Credit eTrading during the New York day, including incident leadership, prioritization, and stakeholder communications
  • Monitor and improve platform health (availability, latency, throughput), proactively identifying risks and driving remediation plans
  • Develop automated monitoring tools to help early issue detection and post incident follow-up
  • Support electronic execution workflows across venues and protocols (RFQ, streaming, algo trading), including connectivity, session management, and venue-specific behaviors
  • Lead troubleshooting across pricing/quoting services, market data, order management, trade capture, and downstream integrations; coordinate cross-team resolution where required
  • Partner with Quants and engineering teams on pricing/curve-related/algo issues, releases, and production fixes; ensure appropriate testing and production readiness
  • Manage change and release activities, ensuring controlled deployments, rollback readiness, and effective handovers across regions
  • Drive problem management: root cause analysis, post-incident reviews, and delivery of permanent fixes, automation, and monitoring improvements
  • Partner with Middle Office/Operations to resolve trade lifecycle exceptions (allocations, confirmations, settlement breaks) where technology is a contributing factor
  • Maintain and improve runbooks, operational procedures, monitoring and alerting; reduce manual intervention and improve resilience
  • Provide coaching and guidance to junior team members and contribute to a strong operational culture across the global support model

You'll likely have the following skills to succeed in this role:
  • Bachelor's or Master's degree, ideally in a quantitative discipline (Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Finance or similar)
  • Experience in production support / SRE / DevOps for electronic trading or other low-latency, high-availability platforms
  • Understanding of Fixed Income products and eTrading workflows across Rates and Credit, including RFQ, streaming/pricing, and algorithmic execution
  • Strong troubleshooting across distributed systems: Linux/UNIX, networking (TCP/IP), messaging, databases, and performance bottlenecks
  • Hands-on scripting/programming for diagnostics and automation (e.g., Python, Shell; plus at least one of Java/C++)
  • Experience with monitoring/observability tooling (e.g., ITRS Geneos) and a focus on operational automation
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with front office business users, traders, sales, quants, as well as other internal technical teams or vendors, and produce clear written updates for different audiences
  • Understanding of production management disciplines (incident/problem/change; ITIL concepts)
  • Proven ownership mindset, able to work under pressure and independently, while collaborating effectively across global teams
  • Front-office application support experience within a tier-1 investment bank or hedge fund
  • Working knowledge of FIX protocol
  • Experience with kdb+/q and/or SQL for investigation and analysis.
  • Familiarity with low-latency messaging (e.g., MQ, 29West, SBE, PICO REDLINE)
  • Experience with observability/data platforms such as Grafana/InfluxDB, Elastic, MongoDB
  • Understand capacity management, co-location (COLO) environments, and Production/DR operating models
  • Experience managing third-party suppliers

As an HSBC employee, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities to ensure you have the right skills for today and tomorrow. We offer a competitive pay and benefits package including a robust Wellness Hub, all in a welcoming and inclusive work environment. You will be empowered to drive HSBC's engagement with the communities we serve through an industry-leading volunteerism policy, a generous matching gift program, and a comprehensive program of immersive Sustainability and Climate Change Initiatives. You'll want to join our Employee Resource Groups as they play a central part in life at HSBC, including the development of our employees and networking inside and outside of HSBC. We value difference. We succeed together. We take responsibility. We get it done. And we want you to help us build the bank of the future!

Your final fixed pay offer will depend on the candidate and several variables, including but not limited to, role responsibilities, skill set, depth of experience and education, licensing/certification requirements, internal relativity, and specific work location.

About HSBC

HSBC Holdings plc is a British multinational investment bank and financial services holding company. It is the second largest bank in Europe, with total assets of US$2.984 trillion (as of August 2021). HSBC traces its origin to a hong in British Hong Kong and its present form was established in London by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation to act as a new group holding company in 1991; its name derives from that company's initials. The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation opened branches in Shanghai in 1865 and was first formally incorporated in 1866. The company was renamed The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited in 1989.
Learn more about HSBC
Size
219,763 employees
Market Cap
$124.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$5.2 billion
Founded
1880
5 Year Trend
-3.1%
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