Platform Engineer
Leading Technology-Driven Investment Firm
London-based
Salary: £85,000 + Bonus
I’m working with a fast-growing technology-driven trading firm looking to hire a Junior Platform Engineer to support a globally distributed, high-performance infrastructure environment powering real-time data and trading operations.
This is an opportunity to join a highly technical team working across multi-cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, automation, and platform reliability within a fast-paced environment.
What you’ll be working on:
• Supporting a 24x7 global infrastructure environment across cloud and on-prem systems
• Improving platform performance, automation, and operational processes
• Working closely with development and infrastructure teams on architecture and scalability
• Managing infrastructure across multi-region / multi-cloud environments
• Linux and network stack optimisation, tuning, and production support
• Contributing to automation and reducing manual operational overhead
Tech stack / experience:
• 2+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong AWS and networking experience in production environments
• Linux systems administration and troubleshooting expertise
• Scripting or coding experience with Bash, Python, Java, C#, Rust, or VBA
• Understanding of infrastructure performance tuning and reliability engineering
Nice to have:
• Docker / Kubernetes
• Terraform / Ansible
• Monitoring & observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)
If interested, feel free to message me directly for more information