Kubernetes Platform Lead- Systematic Quant Fund
Kubernetes Platform Lead- Systematic Quant Fund
Oxford Knight London, United Kingdom Apply now Posted 20 hours ago Permanent Competitive
Kubernetes Platform Lead- Systematic Quant Fund
Oxford Knight London, United Kingdom Apply now
My client is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. A technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped the collaborative mindset, enabling them to solve the most complex challenges. They have a culture of innovation which continuously drives their ambition to deliver high quality returns for investors.
About the role
The successful candidate will join the global infrastructure team and will be responsible for developing the Kubernetes platform that supports the firm's evolving technology stack. Looking for a highly skilled Lead Kubernetes Engineer to architect, build, and lead the deployment and operation of scalable, secure, and high-performance Kubernetes environments. You will play a key role in designing container orchestration platforms, implementing GitOps workflows, mentoring team members, and driving best practices across the infrastructure and DevOps functions.
Requirements
* You will design and lead the implementation of Kubernetes clusters (on-prem and/or cloud) with high availability, scalability and security
* You will offer Kubernetes as a product to internal teams by delivering self-service capabilities (e.g. namespace provisioning, templated jobs, onboarding flows).
* You will build reusable platform patterns and deployment blueprints using Helm, Kustomize, or custom controllers.
* You will develop and maintain platform-aware GitOps workflows using tools like ArgoCD, Flux, and GitLab CI.
* You will have proven experience designing and operating production-grade Kubernetes environments (EKS, AKS, GKE, or bare-metal).
* You will have deep understanding of Kubernetes internals, including control plane components, CRDs, CNI, and storage provisioning.
* You will have deep understanding of container security, admission controllers, and policy enforcement tools (e.g. OPA/Gatekeeper).
* You will implement RBAC, network policies, secrets management, and ensure platform compliance with internal and regulatory standards.
* You will partner with DevOps, Security and Application teams to enable multi-tenant, production-grade container platforms.
* You will lead incident response and post-mortem analysis related to Kubernetes and container platform outages.
* You will manage the CI/CD integration with container workflows using GitOps or pipelines (e.g. ArgoCD, Flux, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
* You will mentor and guide junior Kubernetes and platform engineers, fostering a strong engineering culture.
* You will have deep knowledge of DevOps tooling, including Terraform/Ansible and be able to demonstrate use of CI/CD technologies, such as Github, Jenkins or Gitlab
* You will have strong knowledge of Python, Golang or similar programming and scripting languages
* You will have deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure and multiple cloud technologies with the ability to operate in and migrate across public and private clouds
* You will stay informed on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure infrastructure automation and DevOps tooling & practices remain cutting-edge.
* As a senior engineering leader, you will partner closely with research and other infrastructure engineering teams, and work in a highly collaborative manner.
Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.
Contact
If this sounds like you, or you'd like more information, please get in touch:
George Hutchinson-Binks
george.hutchinson-binks@oxfordknight.co.uk
(+44) 07885 545220
linkedin.com/in/george-hutchinson-binks-a62a69252
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