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