Production Support Manager - Payments
- New York
- Permanent
- Permanent IT
- LTs8-1613167
- 08/09/2025
Production Support Manager – Payments
New York City
Competitive Base + Bonus (DOE)
Certus Recruitment Group is exclusively partnered with a global financial institution to find a high-impact Production Support Manager to lead and evolve their regional payments support function.
This is a key leadership role, ideal for someone who thrives in complex, high-stakes environments and has a deep understanding of modern DevOps practices. The successful candidate will drive operational excellence, automate relentlessly, and ensure top-tier uptime for mission-critical systems.
Key Responsibilities:
This is an opportunity to join a world-class platform where performance, resilience, and automation are top priorities. With strong leadership support, meaningful scope, and global visibility, this role offers the chance to make a real difference in how critical financial services operate.
Certus Recruitment is a well-established and experienced specialist consultancy providing sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services. We serve the technology sector across the UK, Europe, North America, and Australia.
New York City
Competitive Base + Bonus (DOE)
Certus Recruitment Group is exclusively partnered with a global financial institution to find a high-impact Production Support Manager to lead and evolve their regional payments support function.
This is a key leadership role, ideal for someone who thrives in complex, high-stakes environments and has a deep understanding of modern DevOps practices. The successful candidate will drive operational excellence, automate relentlessly, and ensure top-tier uptime for mission-critical systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead regional and global teams in managing high-impact production incidents, ensuring effective resolution and root cause analysis
- Own the payments observability platform, optimising monitoring and reducing false positives
- Drive automation and tooling improvements using Chef, Puppet, Rundeck, Ansible, and more
- Implement resiliency measures including self-healing infrastructure, failover automation, and capacity planning
- Act as a central liaison between technical teams, senior leadership, and business stakeholders
- Mentor and grow a high-performing SRE team, fostering a collaborative and resilient culture
- Extensive experience in Production Support, SRE, or DevOps within complex, regulated environments
- Previous exposure to front-office trading support (FX, Rates, Capital Markets) is advantageous
- Strong technical knowledge of UNIX/Linux (including AIX), Oracle, Control-M, Elastic, and networking
- Proficiency in scripting (Python, Shell) and messaging systems (Kafka, IBM MQ, Solace)
- Familiarity with modern observability and monitoring tools (Splunk, Prometheus, ITRS, Prognosis)
- Demonstrated success in leading technical teams and engaging senior stakeholders
This is an opportunity to join a world-class platform where performance, resilience, and automation are top priorities. With strong leadership support, meaningful scope, and global visibility, this role offers the chance to make a real difference in how critical financial services operate.
Certus Recruitment is a well-established and experienced specialist consultancy providing sales, marketing, and IT recruitment services. We serve the technology sector across the UK, Europe, North America, and Australia.