Platform Engineer

Overview

🏢 Company | Financial Markets, Trading Technology

👤 Position | Platform Engineer

🎯 Impact | Scaling Infrastructure, Automating Workflows, Enhancing Security

📏 Size | 500+ employees

🌟 Skills | AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Python, Kubernetes, DevOps

📍 Location | London

💻 Hybrid | 3 days a week in-office

💰 Offer | Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits

💎 Benefits | Pension, Private Healthcare, Learning & Development Budget, Generous Leave Policy

The Challenges You’ll Solve

Scaling Infrastructure at Speed

The firm’s trading systems demand a highly available, low-latency platform that scales without bottlenecks.
You’ll design and refine the infrastructure to handle surges in market activity and ensure smooth operations.

Automating Everything

Manual processes slow teams down—you’ll work on removing friction by automating provisioning, deployments, and monitoring.
From Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to self-service tooling, you’ll create solutions that give developers control while maintaining security.

Making Security a First-Class Citizen

Trading firms are prime targets for cyber threats—security can’t be an afterthought.
You’ll embed security into the entire SDLC, ensuring least privilege access, compliance, and governance while keeping deployment speeds high.

Building a Developer-First Platform

Developers want to ship code fast, but not at the cost of stability or security.
You’ll work on CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, rapid deployments while giving engineers insight into their applications in production.

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Challenges

The firm runs cloud-native (AWS) and on-premises workloads—both need to work together seamlessly.
You’ll define best practices for hybrid cloud deployments, balancing cost, performance, and resilience.

What You Bring to the Table

You’ve scaled infrastructure in a high-traffic environment.
You think in automation-first principles—whether it’s Terraform, Ansible, or Python.
You understand AWS (or Azure) and how to build for security, reliability, and speed.
You see CI/CD pipelines as the backbone of modern development.
You love solving complex problems and eliminating inefficiencies.