Platform Engineer

Overview

Leading Crypto Trading Client requires a Platform Engineer with Web Scraping, Python and networking tools and Linux. All rounder position will look after Network Virtual Servers, self starter, must be able to communicate with senior stakeholders:

• As a Platform Engineer, you will:
• 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 development team in terms of architecture/prioritization
• Liaise closely and collaboratively with central infrastructure team, in terms of common infrastructure/improving standards across the estate
• Work effectively in a global multi-cloud set up, in terms of initiating/managing relationships, evaluation/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)