Summary
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Join a leading financial technology environment as a Platform Engineer/SRE responsible for infrastructure behind mission-critical systems. Design scalable platforms, improve CI/CD and observability, build automation and self-service tooling, and operate large-scale containerized distributed environments.
Highlights
High-impact infrastructure role with substantial technical ownership, excellent compensation, and responsibility for reliability, performance, scalability, and automation of mission-critical systems.
Description
🚀 Platform Engineer / SRE — Up to £250,000 + Bonus
🏦 Leading Quantitative Trading Firm | 📍 London (Hybrid/Remote)
What does it take to keep a trading platform bulletproof at scale? 🔧
My client - one of the world's leading quantitative trading firms - is hiring a Platform Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to design, build, and operate the infrastructure behind mission-critical trading systems.
This is a role with real technical ownership, working on problems most engineers only read about.
What You'll Be Doing:
🔹 Design, build, and maintain scalable platform infrastructure
🔹 Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines to accelerate delivery
🔹 Strengthen observability through monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
🔹 Build automation and self-service tooling that engineers actually want to use
🔹 Support containerized workloads and orchestration across large-scale environments
🔹 Drive reliability, performance, and scalability improvements across distributed systems and middleware
Desired Skills:
✅ Experience as a Platform Engineer, SRE, or DevOps Engineer
✅ Strong Linux systems knowledge and automation experience
✅ Track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
✅ Hands-on with containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)
✅ Solid grasp of monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
✅ Experience with Infrastructure as Code and infra automation
✅ Strong scripting/programming skills (Python, Go, Bash, or similar)
✅ Genuine passion for building reliable, highly available platforms
Why Join?
💡 Join one of the world's most respected quant trading firms
🚀 Real ownership of large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure
🤝 Work alongside exceptional engineers in a high-performance environment
📈 Tackle complex engineering challenges with modern DevOps/SRE practices
💰 Outstanding compensation, bonus, and comprehensive benefits
📩 Interested?
Apply now or reach out directly for a confidential discussion — hrubin@hunterbond.com
