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 . Interview Process | CV Review > Screening Call with Us > Submission > Technical Interview > Final Interview > Offer