Cloud Platform Performance Engineer

Oxford Knight

Greater London

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

3 days ago

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EV/cycle to work

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Central London or Singapore offices

Job summary

Oxford Knight is seeking a Platform Performance Engineer to join a trading application team in London. You will optimize throughput and latency for cloud-based hosts and a globally distributed trading system, starting with cost efficiency of existing deployments and hardware instrumentation.

As projects evolve, you may work on on-prem workloads, broaden cloud coverage to AWS/GCP, and help integrate provisioning into the team’s inventory system, contributing directly to PnL and working with a

Qualifications

Significant performance experience, especially in cloud environments.
Familiarity with Linux tooling and network diagnostics.
Deep knowledge of TCP, WebSockets, HTTP, TLS, and FIX protocols.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
Not suitable for fresh graduates.

Responsibilities

Focus on improving throughput and latency of cloud-based hosts and trading systems.
Drive cost efficiency of existing trading deployments and instrument hardware.
Support on-prem work and coordinate A/B performance experiments.
Assist in extending AWS deployments to new clouds (e.g., GCP) and integrate provisioning into inventory management.