At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure the reliability of trading platforms and respond swiftly to incidents.
- Company: Join a dynamic company that prioritises safety, integrity, and teamwork.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborate across teams in a fast-paced environment with excellent career advancement potential.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in a hands-on role while working with cutting-edge technology.
- Qualifications: 7+ years in platform engineering or related fields, with strong troubleshooting skills.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
In this role, you will sustain the reliability of critical trading platforms across hybrid and cloud environments, enabling stable production operations and rapid incident response. You’ll drive controlled releases, automation, and operational readiness for trading, scheduling, risk, settlement, and end-of-day processes. You’ll partner with stakeholders to communicate status and risks while supporting platform transformation and security/compliance requirements. This is a hands-on, impact-focused role in a company that values safety, integrity and teamwork.
Responsibilities
- Maintain stability, availability, performance, monitoring, and continuity across production and non-production environments.
- Lead incident management: restore service quickly, coordinate escalations, perform root-cause analysis.
- Support environment readiness, migration, testing, deployment, and release validation for platform transformations.
- Ensure security and compliance through change controls, access governance, and audit requirements.
- Communicate status, risks, and recovery plans to business and leadership stakeholders.
- Document fixes, improve knowledge articles, automate repeatable tasks, and improve service stability.
- Monitor and support applications, infrastructure, databases, middleware, integrations, and cloud services.
- Triage issues across applications, databases, servers, networks, middleware, and cloud services.
- Support controlled deployments and production release activities.
- Automate support, deployment, validation, monitoring, and documentation using DevOps and scripting tools.
- Analyze SQL/Oracle data, logs, APIs, middleware, and data pipelines for root-cause analysis.
- Support resiliency, backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery activities.
Key requirements
- 7 or more years of experience in platform engineering, production support, DevOps, site reliability engineering, or related fields.
- 5 or more years of experience supporting business-critical production platforms with defined availability and escalation expectations.
- Direct troubleshooting across applications, databases, servers, networks, middleware, integrations, and cloud services.
- Experience supporting on-call, shift-based, or follow-the-sun operations for global or time-sensitive functions.
- Accountability and ownership.
- Clear, concise communication.
- Cross-functional collaboration.
- Platform engineering with applications, infrastructure, databases, middleware, integrations, and cloud services.
- Knowledge of commercial trading platforms or energy/commodity trading processes.
- Incident management, SLA handling, and operational readiness.
Platform Reliability Engineer employer: ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in the heart of London where innovation and collaboration thrive. Employees benefit from comprehensive training and development opportunities, ensuring personal and professional growth while contributing to a culture that prioritises safety and operational excellence. With a commitment to sustainability and community engagement, working here means being part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to making a positive impact.
