Senior Production Engineer

🚨 Senior Platform Engineer – London | Elite Trading Environment | £400k–£500k+ TC

I’m working on a high-impact Senior Platform Engineering role within a top-tier global trading firm. This is a chance to operate at the core of a mission-critical production environment, where infrastructure performance directly impacts trading outcomes.

This is a deep technical role focused on building and scaling the platforms that power a globally distributed, high-performance trading ecosystem.

🧠 What you’ll be doing

• Designing and evolving core platform infrastructure supporting production trading systems

• Building internal tooling across observability, build systems, and infrastructure automation

• Managing and optimising Linux-based environments across global colocations

• Operating and scaling on-prem Kubernetes clusters and containerised workloads

• Partnering closely with engineering teams to debug complex, real-time production issues

• Driving improvements in system reliability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems

⚙️ Tech environment

• Linux (deep systems-level exposure)

• Kubernetes / containerisation (on-prem)

• Observability stacks

• Languages: Python, Go (or similar)

• Distributed systems at scale

🎯 What they’re looking for

• Strong background in platform engineering, SRE, or production engineering

• Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and debugging at scale

• Experience building and operating complex distributed systems

• Comfortable owning problems end-to-end — from diagnosis through to resolution

• A mindset geared towards root cause analysis and continuous improvement

💰 Compensation:

• Base: £150k – £200k+

• Year 1 Total Comp: £300k – £500k+

🌍 Why this role stands out

• You’ll be working on infrastructure that is directly tied to trading performance

• Highly technical, engineering-led environment — minimal bureaucracy

• Significant ownership and autonomy from day one

• Comp structure that genuinely rewards impact and performance

This is well suited to engineers coming from high-scale tech, cloud infrastructure, or low-latency environments who want to step into a top-tier trading setup.

💬 If you’d be open to hearing more, feel free to message me directly or comment below.

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