Platform Engineer (Compute): £180,000 + Bonus (Fintech)

Platform Engineer (Compute) – Systematic Trading – [London/Relocation available]

£180,000 + bonus & benefits |

The opportunity

A leading global systematic investment firm is looking for an experienced platform engineer to join its core compute team. The firm runs high-performance, data-intensive workloads across regions, and this team builds the infrastructure underneath them. You’ll architect and evolve the compute platform, working closely with engineering teams worldwide on infrastructure-as-code, observability and self-healing systems.

Why consider it?

• Hands-on engineering: you write production code and build internal tooling and APIs, not just run tickets.
• Real scale: large, global, performance-critical compute supporting research and trading.
• Influence: you help set best practice and mentor junior engineers.
• Automation-first culture: incidents lead to architectural fixes, not just firefighting.

What you’ll be doing

• Architecting and evolving scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices
• Building automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management and lifecycle operations
• Developing internal tooling and APIs that hide infrastructure complexity and boost productivity
• Driving observability with telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs and traces
• Taking part in bulk server provisioning, including working with remote hands
• Partnering with software engineers on scalability, reliability and security
• Joining on-call and incident response, and turning postmortems into long-term improvements

What we’re looking for

Essential

• Expert-level Linux administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)
• Configuration management (Ansible, Chef or SaltStack)
• Python, Go or Rust for infrastructure tooling
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulumi)
• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP or Azure) across compute, storage, networking and IAM
• Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix) plus logging and tracing (ELK, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
• Identity and access management (LDAP, Kerberos, OAuth2)
• Git workflows, test-driven infrastructure and a DevOps mindset
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar

Apply directly or email jhayne@hunterbond.com for a confidential discussion