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Platform Engineer - Banking and Finance

Full-time

Do you want to join a global leader within the high frequency trading space?

Join a global proprietary trading firm operating at the intersection of trading, research, and high-performance technology. The organisation balances advanced modelling, engineering, and quantitative expertise to identify opportunities across global financial markets, trading a wide range of asset classes with its own capital. With over 30 years of innovation, the team combines the agility of a startup with the stability of an established firm, fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning.

They are seeking a Platform Engineer to join a high-performance trading infrastructure team. Help deploy, scale, and observe mission-critical systems, making deployments faster, infrastructure more self-service, and system health more visible.

Apply now to be part of a high-performance environment where solving complex problems drives real impact across global markets!

Responsibilities:

  • Automate deployment patterns across containerized and non-containerized workloads
  • Build self-service infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible
  • Drive CI/CD improvements and advocate modern software delivery practices
  • Enhance monitoring and alerting to surface meaningful signals and support proactive capacity management
  • Research and implement technologies to improve orchestration, workload management, and system visibility
  • Learn and support in-house tools for infrastructure management in a hybrid working model.

Requirements:

  • Experience supporting high-performance, mission-critical trading systems
  • Strong Kubernetes experience (deployment, troubleshooting, optimization)
  • Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Ansible, Terraform
  • Solid Linux systems knowledge
  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software delivery best practices

Salary:

  • Up to 250,000 total comp
Vacancy posted more than 2 months ago
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