Platform Engineer

On site

London, United kingdom

Full Time

14-05-2025

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Job Specifications

Summary

Industry-leading hedge fund using innovative and cutting-edge technology, with data at the core of the investment process. Great opportunity for talented software engineers with strong CompSci fundamentals to join the team using modern cloud-based technology to develop innovative solutions for the biggest business challenges.

In this high-impact role, the successful engineer will be responsible for building out and managing a modern cloud platform - security, networking, and structure - and working with application teams on new design patterns. Projects are varied and involve modern, large-scale databases (BigQuery, MongoDB), cloud-based object/file/block storage solutions, and microservices architectures.

The ideal candidate is a strong generalist and has experience of moving software from on-prem to the cloud (GCP or AWS) at scale.

Requirements

Solid experience with Linux, Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure-as-Code and tools such as Terraform and Ansible
Experience deploying and managing services in a cloud environment (AWS and/or GCP would be ideal)
Minimum bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineer, Electrical Engineering (or related field)
Bonus points for large-scale distributed systems experience (design, development, operation)
Finance experience not required

Rewards and Incentives

Significant salary + bonus + benefits
Build complex software solutions to solve challenging problems in agile environment
Positive, friendly culture

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 you feel you are suitable for this role, or would like more information, drop me an email:

Jack Peck

[e] jack.peck@oxfordknight.co.uk

[t] +44 20 3745 6537

linkedin.com/in/jack-peck-448a70131

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