Platform Engineer - Banking and Finance

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