Lead Infrastructure Engineer

We're seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer covering designing, building and maintaining robust, resilient and scalable, infrastructure automation systems in the Technology division. This Lead Cloud and Infrastructure Engineering position is at Vice President level and is responsible for managing and optimizing technical infrastructure and ensuring the seamless operation of IT systems to support business needs.

• Design, implement and support new infrastructure solutions to enable our algorithmic trading business to operate in an efficient, effective and compliant manner.
• Collaborate closely with business-facing development groups, system administrators and enterprise infrastructure engineers to implement and maintain appropriate solutions to reduce costs and manage technology risk for our business.
• Act as a subject matter expert for our Linux-based electronic trading infrastructure platform.
• Mentor, coach and lead less experienced engineers.
• Provide technical leadership and vision for a small business-aligned team of engineers and SREs.
• Drive the continuous improvement of our infrastructure and working practices through regular reviews, blameless post‑mortems and other SRE techniques.

• Advanced knowledge of the Python programming language and standard software engineering concepts such as common data structures, regular expressions, object‑oriented programming, and advanced algorithms.
• Strong understanding of core Unix components – networking stack, daemon configuration, OS customization.
• Experience with architecting large‑scale, robust, resilient and scalable systems. Domain expertise in infrastructure automation and integration.
• The ability to describe algorithmic and architectural trade‑offs in an algebraic or quantitative fashion.
• Comfortable developing in a Linux and CLI-based environment.
• Knowledge of standard Linux command‑line debugging tools such as tcpdump and strace.
• Familiarity with modern development tools and practices including agentic‑workflows, git, jenkins, test‑driven development, and continuous integration.
• Can take full‑lifecycle ownership of components within a project, from initial architecture design to ongoing support.
• A proven track record of technical leadership, able to work independently on both technical problems as well as customer interactions. The successful candidate will also be expected to provide technical mentorship and leadership to less experienced engineers.
• Familiarity with the Go programming language would also be useful.

If this role is deemed a Certified role, the holder may need to maintain mandatory regulatory qualifications or meet internal company benchmarks.

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