Platform Engineer - Trading - £150K

Platform Engineer - Trading - £150K

Are you a DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineer looking to make a massive impact on mission-critical infrastructure?

Our client is a leading hedge fund and are looking for a Platform Engineers to help build, automate, and scale the solutions that power their trading.

In this role, you'll work directly with developers, researchers, and infrastructure teams to supercharge their productivity.

You'll design and scale robust platform infrastructure, build CI/CD pipelines, and create seamless self-service workflows.

While you don't need to be an expert in everything, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute across a diverse technical ecosystem, including:

• Observability (Prometheus, Grafana etc)
• Scheduling / Orchestration (Kubernetes)
• Automation (Ansible, Terraform etc)
• Databases & Middleware (PostgreSQL, Kafka etc)

They're looking for:

• Strong experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform engineering.
• Solid software development skills in Python would be ideal
• Hands-on experience with Linux, Bash, and Containerisation.
• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible.

Nice-to-haves:

Familiarity with on-prem deployments (GitLab), workflow orchestrators (Airflow), API development, or additional languages like Golang and Rust would be ideal.

Why apply?

You will join a collaborative, high-performance environment where your work directly improves the day-to-day experience of research and development teams.

If you love solving complex infrastructure puzzles and driving operational excellence, this is the role for you.