Platform Engineer
Junior (2-5yoe) Platform Engineer - London
As a Junior Platform Engineer, you will:
- Act as infrastructure SME for a 24x7x365 globally distributed ethical web scraping function, supporting a multi region high frequency crypto trading operation
- Be able to proactively analyze, drive, and own, performance and process improvements along all parts of the chain
- Collaborate closely with development team in terms of architecture/prioritization
- Liaise closely and collaboratively with central infrastructure team, in terms of common infrastructure/improving standards across the estate
- Work effectively in a global multi-cloud set up, in terms of initiating/managing relationships, evaluation/onboarding of new providers, and improving internal processes in line with best-of-breed industry practices
- Be a Linux/network stack expert and utilise that knowledge in the context of tuning/optimization and production support
- Support the platform during business hours, and out-of-hours as part of a rota, and proactively chase ways to reduce/design out manual support overhead
Required skillset:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a STEM subject from a recognised university
- Minimum 2 years of solid working experience in an infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform engineer role
- Production experience in a global cloud environment. Demonstrable AWS and strong networking experience in a multi-region and/or multi-cloud set up is essential.
- Demonstrable basic development or scripting experience in one or more of the following languages: Bash, Python, Java, C#, Rust, Excel VBA
- Good Linux / network stack knowledge, as well as optimization/tuning
Nice to have:
- Containerization (Docker / Kubernetes) in a production environment
- Monitoring tools in a production environment (Prometheus / Grafana / ELK stack / Splunk)
- IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible etc)