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Platform Engineer
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City Of London, Central London, Greater London, England, UK
Listed on 2026-06-07
Listing for:
Huxley Associates
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-07
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cloud Computing
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Overview
Leading Crypto Trading Client requires a Platform Engineer with Web Scraping, Python and networking tools and Linux. The all-rounder position will look after Network Virtual Servers, requires a self-starter who can communicate with senior stakeholders.
Responsibilities- Act as infrastructure SME for a 24x7x365 globally distributed ethical web scraping function, supporting a multi-region high frequency crypto trading operation
- Be able to proactively analyze, drive, and own performance and process improvements along all parts of the chain
- Collaborate closely with the development team in terms of architecture/prioritization
- Liaise closely and collaboratively with the central infrastructure team, in terms of common infrastructure/improving standards across the estate
- Work effectively in a global multi-cloud setup, initiating/managing relationships, evaluating/onboarding of new providers, and improving internal processes in line with best-of-breed industry practices
- Be a Linux/network stack expert and utilise that knowledge in the context of tuning/optimization and production support
- Support the platform during business hours, and out-of-hours as part of a rota, and proactively chase ways to reduce/design out manual support overhead
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a STEM subject from a recognised university
- Minimum 2 years of solid working experience in an infrastructure, Dev Ops, or Platform engineer role
- Production experience in a global cloud environment. Demonstrable AWS and strong networking experience in a multi-region and/or multi-cloud set up is essential.
- Demonstrable basic development or scripting experience in one or more of the following languages:
Bash, Python, Java, C#, Rust, Excel VBA - Strong Linux / network stack knowledge, as well as optimization/tuning
- Containerization (Docker / Kubernetes) in a production environment
- Monitoring tools in a production environment (Prometheus / Grafana / ELK stack / Splunk)
- IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible etc)
To find out more about Huxley, please visit (url removed)
Huxley, a trading division of SThree Partnership LLP is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy. Registered office 8 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4BQ
, United Kingdom. Partnership Number OC(phone number removed) England and Wales
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