Platform Engineer (Automation): £130,000 +Bonus (Fintech Trading)

Client: Elite Systematic Trading Firm

Location: London

About the Firm:

Join a world-class systematic trading firm at the forefront of quantitative finance. Our client specializes in cutting-edge technology, sophisticated algorithms, and ultra-low-latency trading strategies, operating in some of the most competitive financial markets globally. They foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence, offering engineers the opportunity to work with the latest technologies in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.

Role overview: We are seeking a Platform Automation Specialist to join a global engineering team focused on delivering high-performance and highly available infrastructure using modern DevOps practices. This is a hands-on role where you’ll design, implement, and maintain automations that empower developers and engineers to self-serve platform services at scale.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop platform automations to enhance efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with developers, platform engineers, and stakeholders to deliver robust automation solutions.
• Implement infrastructure as code and CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments.
• Administer and automate services across Linux, containers, storage, and networking environments.
• Contribute to ongoing system configuration, optimization, and performance tuning.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field.
• 2+ years’ experience in platform automation or similar roles.
• Advanced knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform).
• Strong programming skills in Python.
• Systems Engineering experience in a high-availability and/or low-latency environment.
• Interest in DevOps.

Sells:

• The chance to work with the most cutting-edge technology in the industry
• Technologists only report to technologists
• Techies treated as top asset
• Small team size in a growing company so an ability to make a significant impact
• Constantly exciting greenfield projects in an ever-evolving environment
• No red tape
• Beautiful offices
• Cutting-edge tech: 5-10 years ahead of the competition
• Rewarding, satisfying work: yearly pay reviews, role progression and autonomy
• Greenfield projects
• Unrivalled bonus, exceptional benefits package

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology, Engineering, and Finance

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting, Software Development, and Investment Management

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