Production Support Engineer
Production Support Engineer
Toronto, CA, M5J 2M4
Production Support Engineer (L1 / L1+) – Equities & Risk Platforms
We’re looking for a Production Support Engineer (L1 / L1+) to join a high-performing team supporting mission-critical Equities and Risk platforms. This role sits at the intersection of technology, trading operations, and data, offering exposure to real-time systems in a fast-paced financial environment.
If you’re analytical, enjoy troubleshooting complex systems, and want to build expertise in front-office support, this role offers strong growth potential.
What You’ll Do
- Monitor and support production applications for equities trading, pricing, and risk systems
- Perform first-line investigation and triage of incidents, alerts, and batch failures
- Support daily risk and pricing processes critical to business operations
- Analyze application logs, workflows, and data flows to identify root causes
- Escalate complex issues to engineering teams with clear analysis and context
- Execute and improve operational procedures and controls
- Support and maintain workflow scheduling and orchestration pipelines (e.g., Airflow)
- Ensure data availability and integrity across systems
- Collaborate with traders, developers, and global support teams
- Participate in release cycles, deployments, and validation activities
- Contribute to automation, monitoring enhancements, and continuous improvement initiatives
- Maintain clear and up-to-date runbooks and documentation
What You Bring
- 2–5 years of experience in Production Support, Application Support, SRE, or Backend Engineering
- Strong understanding of Java-based applications and backend systems
- Hands-on experience working in Linux/Unix environments
- Solid SQL skills with the ability to investigate data issues
- Familiarity with monitoring/logging tools such as:
- Splunk
- Grafana
- Kibana / ELK Stack
- Understanding of distributed systems and APIs
- Exposure to:
- Kafka or messaging systems
- REST APIs
- CI/CD pipelines
- Git
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- Effective communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative environment