Platform Engineer: £85k + Bonus/benefits (High Frequency Trading)

Platform Engineer

Leading Technology-Driven Investment Firm

London-based

Salary: £85,000 + Bonus

I’m working with a fast-growing technology-driven trading firm looking to hire a Junior Platform Engineer to support a globally distributed, high-performance infrastructure environment powering real-time data and trading operations.

This is an opportunity to join a highly technical team working across multi-cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, automation, and platform reliability within a fast-paced environment.

What you’ll be working on:

• Supporting a 24x7 global infrastructure environment across cloud and on-prem systems

• Improving platform performance, automation, and operational processes

• Working closely with development and infrastructure teams on architecture and scalability

• Managing infrastructure across multi-region / multi-cloud environments

• Linux and network stack optimisation, tuning, and production support

• Contributing to automation and reducing manual operational overhead

Tech stack / experience:

• 2+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering

• Strong AWS and networking experience in production environments

• Linux systems administration and troubleshooting expertise

• Scripting or coding experience with Bash, Python, Java, C#, Rust, or VBA

• Understanding of infrastructure performance tuning and reliability engineering

Nice to have:

• Docker / Kubernetes

• Terraform / Ansible

• Monitoring & observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)

If interested, feel free to message me directly for more information

jhayne@hunterbond.com