Head of Production Engineering - Hedge Fund (London)
Attribution Search is partnered with a leading quantitative hedge fund to appoint a Head of Platform Engineering into its London office. This is a high-impact leadership role within a technology-led business operating at scale across hybrid cloud infrastructure.
The Role
You will lead and scale the Platform Engineering function, owning the architecture, reliability and evolution of the firm’s hybrid-cloud platform (on-prem + AWS). The remit includes compute, networking, storage, orchestration, containerisation, and infrastructure for advanced AI/ML workloads used across the systematic trading environment.
This is a senior hands-on engineering leadership role, combining strategic platform design with day-to-day implementation, mentoring and organisational influence.
Key Responsibilities
- Define the roadmap for hybrid infrastructure across compute, network, storage and orchestration
- Design and operate core infrastructure services (containers, batch, serverless, data compute)
- Build and maintain an internal developer platform enabling secure, scalable deployments
- Own CI/CD pipelines, release automation, configuration and infrastructure lifecycle
- Lead observability strategy across monitoring, logging, tracing and incident response
- Establish standards for automation, IaC, secrets management and security
- Collaborate with data, quant, trading and security teams across global offices
- Blend hands-on engineering with team leadership and architectural decision-making
Experience Required
- Deep expertise with AWS services and hybrid cloud environments
- Strong Kubernetes/EKS and container orchestration
- Solid background in Linux, networking, compute and storage
- IaC and automation (Terraform / Python / Bash)
- CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions or similar tooling
- Observability technologies (Datadog, Grafana, CloudWatch etc.)
- 7+ years in a senior platform, DevOps or infrastructure leadership role
Exposure to quantitative trading, high-performance computing, security frameworks or AI infrastructure is highly advantageous.
Why This Is a Compelling Opportunity
- Influence the platform powering advanced systematic trading strategies
- Shape the firm’s AI infrastructure roadmap
- High ownership across architecture, standards and team structure
- Global visibility and collaboration with leaders across engineering and trading
- Small, senior team with autonomy and minimal bureaucracy
- Competitive compensation package
Candidates with relevant experience are encouraged to apply to learn more.