A Tier 1 multi-strategy fund are seeking a senior, skilled platform engineer to join the business and lead the expansion / build out of their technology platform to deliver a best-in-class environment which will power the companies workloads.
This is a highly technical, engineering-driven environment where infrastructure is seen as a strategic advantage. You will work alongside exceptional technologists to design, automate and operate the systems that power a multi-strategy trading platform.
If you are passionate about infrastructure, automation, and solving complex engineering problems end-to-end, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact.
* Provision and configure physical + virtual servers (including occasional data centre work).
* Manage and troubleshoot hypervisors and virtualisation stacks.
* Administer Debian-based Linux systems using automation—and manually when necessary.
* Review and maintain hardware configuration records through automated tooling.
* Build new automation and tooling for systems administration.
* Use Infra-as-Code to configure and deploy services (load balancers, HA systems, databases, middleware, queues, container orchestrators, etc.).
* Troubleshoot across application, OS, virtualisation, and hardware layers.
* Work with networks at a basic troubleshooting/diagnostics level.
* Configure monitoring and alerting (Prometheus ecosystem).
Requirements:
* Strong experience with Infrastructure-as-Code.
* Proficiency with automation tools.
* Hands-on Linux (Debian-based) systems administration.
* Production experience in containerised environments.
* Understanding of high availability patterns.
* Experience working with CI/CD pipelines.
* Bonus: deep hardware knowledge, networking fundamentals, familiarity with network equipment, strong automation mindset.