Graduate Information Systems Analyst, 2026
Description:
As a graduate analyst you'll work to maintain, optimise and secure the high-performance, ultra-low latency infrastructure that powers our thriving exchange and institutional-grade digital asset custodian.
You’ll be supported by a dedicated mentor and surrounded by skilled professionals. As you grow, depending on your interests and available opportunities, you may have the chance to rotate into other areas of our Technology department, explore different technologies, and take on increasingly complex challenges.
This is more than a graduate role—it’s a launchpad into a high-impact engineering career.
What You Can Expect
- A high degree of ownership over your projects, with strong mentorship and guidance.
- An on-the-job learning environment where you’ll gain practical experience across multiple areas.
- Exposure to industry-leading system adminstration practices
- Opportunities for personal development, including time to explore new technologies and reduce technical debt.
- A collaborative culture that values knowledge sharing and fast feedback
What You May Be Working With
Our tech stack includes:
- OS: Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora for development, Rocky / CentOS / Amazon Linux in production)
- Deployment: Puppet, Ansible, Kubernetes, AWS
- Data Analytics: Python, Jupyter Notebooks, Parquet, Docker
- Security: Microsoft E5, Crowdstrike
- Monitoring: Nagios, Grafana
You may work with any of these technologies—or others—depending on the project requirements. Don’t worry if you don’t know all the tools.
Why Join Us?
At LMAX, we’re known for building high-performance, ultra-low latency systems (we measure in microseconds) and constantly pushing technology further than most, especially in greenfield projects that drive the financial industry forward.
Our engineering culture promotes collaboration and continuous learning, with practices such as pair programming and regular team rotations to broaden experience across the codebase. Developers also benefit from dedicated time for personal development, exploring bleeding-edge technologies or experimenting in our environments, alongside separate sessions focused on improving developer experience and reducing technical debt.
We take continuous integration, delivery, and testing seriously, running over 30,000 acceptance tests every 25 minutes and maintaining extensive performance and resilience suites. Continuous Delivery was pioneered here—one of the authors of the book on the subject worked at LMAX while writing it. Our streamlined workflow, pushing directly to a monorepo with a “revert first, ask questions later” approach, reflects our commitment to speed and quality.
As a Graduate Analyst, you’ll start with smaller, focused projects under the guidance of a mentor, with the opportunity to grow into this environment. If you’re looking for great developer practices, fast feedback, and a cooperative culture at the heart of a thriving exchange and digital asset custodian, then LMAX is for you!
Requirements:
Key Responsibilities
- Triage of events generated by alerting systems with a view of finding potential incidents
- Resolving and escalating incidents according to standard operational procedures
- Ensure internal support requests are dealt with on a timely manner, and contribute to knowledge sharing across technology and business teams
- Support the Service Desk function with advanced requests to ensure the smooth operation of systems
- Update event correlation rules to ensure the relevance of events raised. Work with senior analysts to achieve this objective
- Participate in incident response as required, by providing support in accordance with the LMAX Incident Response Standard
- Engage with business teams and employees to resolve system issues
Essential Skills and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field.
- Ability to write working code in at least one programming language (e.g., Java, C/C++/C#, Python, Go) and a strong grasp of object-oriented programming.
- Commitment to writing clean, readable, and maintainable code.
- An eye for efficiency, identifying opportunities to improve processes and automate workflows.
- Understanding the importance of maintaining confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information, and the impact of their loss on business and individuals.
- Understanding the importance of security from both technological and human perspectives.
- A collaborative spirit committed to ensuring the stability and performance of our IT infrastructure.
- Understanding the role of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Puppet.
- Understanding the role of automated detection and response systems.
- Strong foundational knowledge of networking concepts such as routing and network segmentation.
- A scientific approach to problem-solving and root-cause analysis to diagnose and resolve technical issues.
Benefits:
- 25 days of holiday
- Bonus
- Pension contribution
- Private medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Life assurance
- Critical illness cover
- Wellness contribution program with access to ClassPass
- Plumm Platform
- Five volunteering days
- Give as You Earn initiative
- Learning and development programs
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan