Azure Infrastructure Engineer - FX Trading House - Up to £100k - Hybrid, LDN
Azure Infrastructure Engineer - FX Trading House - Up to £100k - Hybrid, LDN
A leading FX trading house with a strong presence across foreign exchange markets, electronic trading, liquidity management, and multi-asset trading technologies is looking to hire an Infrastructure Engineer to join its core infrastructure and platform support team.
As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will support the day-to-day operation and evolution of a large-scale enterprise infrastructure environment across both Azure cloud and on-prem infrastructure environments. The role sits within a technology team responsible for maintaining a hybrid infrastructure estate spanning Azure cloud services, Microsoft enterprise platforms, and on-prem VMware infrastructure. You will play a key role in ensuring the stability, performance, and scalability of the infrastructure that supports front-office FX trading teams, while also contributing to long-term infrastructure modernisation initiatives across Azure and on-prem environments.
The Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for supporting the operational running of a large enterprise infrastructure estate, working extensively across Azure and on-prem platforms. As an Infrastructure Engineer, the role will involve provisioning, maintaining, and supporting infrastructure environments for multiple trading and business teams, ensuring infrastructure across Azure and on-prem platforms. The Infrastructure Engineer will work heavily across Azure cloud technologies, Azure identity and authentication services, and Microsoft enterprise platforms, while also supporting a sizeable on-prem VMware and Windows Server infrastructure estate.
A key part of the role will involve supporting and administering Azure services alongside on-prem Windows infrastructure, including Active Directory, Group Policy, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Entra ID (Azure Active Directory), VMware, and core infrastructure services. The Infrastructure Engineer will also be responsible for monitoring infrastructure across Azure and on-prem environments, including CPU utilisation, storage, performance metrics, and capacity management, ensuring high availability and operational stability for business-critical trading systems.
The Infrastructure Engineer will contribute to several infrastructure improvement and modernisation projects, including ongoing Azure adoption initiatives, on-prem infrastructure upgrades, and data centre migration programmes into externally managed environments. Working closely with infrastructure, the Infrastructure Engineer will help drive improvements across both Azure and on-prem infrastructure environments, ensuring the technology estate continues to support high-performance FX trading operations and long-term business growth.
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💰 Up to £100,000 base salary per annum + bonus
Key responsibilities:
- Three to five years of experience working within enterprise infrastructure environments
- Strong experience supporting hybrid infrastructure environments across Azure and on-prem platforms
- Experience supporting Azure cloud services alongside on-prem VMware infrastructure
- Strong knowledge of Windows Server, Active Directory, and Group Policy administration across Azure and on-prem environments
- Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell and/or Python to support infrastructure automation across Azure and on-prem platforms
- Strong understanding of Microsoft enterprise technologies, including Microsoft 365, Exchange, and Entra ID (Azure Active Directory)
- Experience monitoring infrastructure performance, capacity management, and operational health across Azure and on-prem environments
- Experience working within fast-paced financial services, trading, or FX environments would be beneficial
If you are interested in this Infrastructure Engineer role, please apply with your recent CV or reach out to me directly on shabana@virtuetech.io
Azure Infrastructure Engineer - FX Trading House - Up to £100k - Hybrid, LDN