Production Stability Engineer

The Production Stability Engineer ensures that critical banking applications remain available, performant and resilient in a live production environment. You will own incident response, investigate complex issues through root-cause analysis, and build monitoring and automation that prevent problems before they affect users. The role sits at the intersection of software engineering, site reliability and risk-aware operations.

Our client is a leading financial services organisation in the banking sector, operating at significant global scale. They are known for a strong commitment to reliability, risk management and operational excellence across their technology platforms. The culture emphasises collaboration, continuous improvement and engineering rigour.

Responsibilities

• Lead the response to production incidents, coordinating triage, mitigation and communication until service is restored.
• Perform root-cause analysis on outages and recurring defects, and drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Troubleshoot application issues across the stack using logs, metrics, traces and database queries.
• Design, build and maintain monitoring dashboards and alerting to detect anomalies early.
• Develop Python-based automation to reduce manual operational work and improve system reliability.
• Analyse application performance, identify bottlenecks and recommend optimisations.
• Apply DevOps and SRE practices such as runbooks, SLOs, capacity planning and post-incident reviews.
• Partner with development, infrastructure and risk teams to improve stability and compliance with regulatory requirements.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in production support, SRE, DevOps or application engineering roles.
• Strong proficiency in Python is mandatory.
• Proven experience in production incident management and root-cause analysis.
• Solid skills in application troubleshooting and system monitoring.
• Working knowledge of SQL for data investigation and analysis.
• Hands-on experience with observability tools and performance analysis techniques.
• Familiarity with automation and DevOps/SRE practices.
• Understanding of global markets and regulatory risk concepts is an advantage.

Skills

Python, Production incident management, Root-cause analysis, Application troubleshooting, Monitoring, SQL, Observability tools, Automation, Performance analysis, DevOps/SRE practices