Summary
✨ AI‑Generated
A senior infrastructure engineering position focused on designing, improving, and automating critical systems across cloud and private environments. The ideal candidate has experience building reliable platforms and supporting large-scale distributed workloads.
Highlights
Opportunity to work on large-scale infrastructure and reliability initiatives in a highly technical environment. The role provides exposure to cloud-native engineering, automation, and complex distributed platforms.
Description
Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer
London | Hedge Fund | Permanent
The Client
Tempest Vane Partners has partnered with a globally recognised investment management business seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join a high-calibre platform engineering team in London.
The Role
This opportunity sits within a technology-driven organisation where engineering is fundamental to business performance.
The successful candidate will work on highly scalable infrastructure supporting large-scale research, analytics, and trading environments across an international platform.
The position offers significant exposure to modern cloud-native engineering, distributed systems, automation, and platform reliability initiatives within a fast-moving and technically sophisticated environment.
The Opportunity
The incoming engineer will play a key role in the design, improvement, and automation of critical infrastructure systems across both cloud and on-premise environments.
Working closely with infrastructure, development, and platform teams, the role will focus heavily on scalability, resilience, observability, and operational efficiency.
Core responsibilities will include:
Engineering and maintaining enterprise-scale Kubernetes environmentsSupporting the evolution toward cloud-native and distributed architecturesDriving automation initiatives across infrastructure and operational workflowsDeveloping and promoting Infrastructure-as-Code best practicesEnhancing platform stability, availability, and system performanceContributing to monitoring, observability, and incident response capabilitiesPartnering with global engineering teams on platform improvements and technical delivery
Candidate Requirements
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate experience across several of the following areas:
Strong scripting or software engineering capability using Python, Golang, Bash, or similarDeep understanding of Kubernetes and container-based infrastructureStrong Linux systems engineering backgroundExperience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or equivalent automation toolingKnowledge of hybrid infrastructure and distributed systems environmentsFamiliarity with observability and monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or JaegerExposure to data streaming or workflow technologies including Kafka or AirflowStrong troubleshooting capability with a focus on automation and reliability engineering
For further information or a confidential discussion, please apply directly via Tempest Vane Partners.
