DevOps/Platform Engineer
Permanent/Financial Services (Investment Bank, Hedge Fund, Asset Management)
Central London/Full Time On-Site
Salary c£100K (negotiable) plus Bonus and full benefits package
Overview
An opportunity to work within the Front Office Platform team for this global financial services organisation. You will deliver technology solutions to Quantitative Development teams who partner with portfolio managers/trading teams providing technology and data-analysis consultancy and development.
You should offer a minimum of 5-10 years' exp. as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or SRE that has worked on advanced systems extensively within other Investment Banks, Hedge Funds/Asset Managers, Financial Services or organisations with high performance platforms such as Energy firms or Media companies with Programmatic Trading.
You will be involved in the build out of key platform features for Front Office; contribute to a modern, automated, cloud native continuous delivered stack; collaborate closely with quant development teams on the requirements for strategic internal products; Improve the security, reliability and cost efficiency of the Front Office platform and infrastructure; Automate as much as possible when appropriate; understand the nuances and challenges of developer experience for internal developer platforms.
We require individuals that are strong on the design/architecture side of platforms as opposed to being predominantly Ops focussed.
Your experience should include:
- Expertise working with any standard CICD technology with an understanding of different deployment units - Servers, containers, serverless.
- Strong cloud experience of AWS plus GCP or Azure
- Automation Scripting
- Highly proficient Linux
- Broad database knowledge
- Kubernetes, Docker, Serverless Framework, AWS SAM
- GitHub Actions, Argo CD
- Python
- Packer
- PostgreSQL
- Knowledge of Distributed computing and accelerator (ray/dask/jax )
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