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!

• 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.

• 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

• Up to 250,000 total comp