Role Details

Role Title: ENET Engineer

Contract: 6 months • Rate: £506 • Location: Hybrid - 3 days on site in London

Role Summary

UK ITS AS (ENET) Engineer will be a member of the team that is responsible for the support and management of the infrastructure that supports the Bank's electronic business (known within other banks as Electronic Trading or Pre-Trade).

It also involves coordination of multiple teams globally to deliver the infrastructure, OS tuning expertise to optimize the performance of Forex (FX) and Fixed Income (FI) applications within the Bank.

Key Responsibilities

• Expert-level knowledge of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats), with proven experience in architecting, deploying, and managing ELK infrastructure across distributed, high-performance environments.
• Experience integrating ELK with packet capture/analysis tools to enhance observability of real-time systems.
• Hands-on expertise in data pipeline creation, ingestion strategies, and performance tuning of Logstash and Beats for scalable telemetry.
• Knowledge of Corvil and/or Pico tools is highly beneficial but not essential, particularly for ingesting network telemetry into Elasticsearch.
• Scripting proficiency in Python and/or PowerShell to automate ELK deployment, monitoring, and alerting pipelines.
• Experience designing and working with APIs (REST/JSON/XML) and integrating third-party data sources into the ELK stack.
• Exposure to Solace, 29West, Tibco, or other low latency messaging platforms is beneficial.
• Working knowledge of security best practices, including RBAC, TLS, and audit logging in Elasticsearch.
• Experience with observability platforms such as ITRS Geneos and their integration with ELK is a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of Linux systems, containers, and cloud-native observability stacks.

Additional Skills

Automation/Scripting (Python, Shell, SQL...) and development skills for administration, monitoring and support tools.