Infrastructure Automation Engineer

Squarepoint Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 68,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonuses

Health and dental benefits

401(k) contributions

Job summary

Squarepoint Capital’s Infrastructure Engineering team is driving API-first automation across bare metal provisioning, network, storage, and cloud. You’ll build the API fabric that connects the infrastructure stack, write production-quality Python, and own CMDB integration and data models.

This hands-on role emphasizes API design, systems integration, and scalable automation in a fast-paced financial environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field.
• 4+ years of software development with a focus on infrastructure automation.
• Production-quality Python development as a core daily activity.
• Experience with CMDB platforms, data model design, API integration.
• Deep API design experience for RESTful APIs, versioning, pagination, error handling.
• Relational database schema design, normalization, indexing, migrations.
• In-depth infrastructure knowledge: bare metal provisioning, network, storage, cloud.
• Systems integration via APIs, building abstraction layers and API lifecycles.
• Strong communication skills for technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Analytical mindset with ability to scope and drive cross-team work.
• Experience with Atlassian stack and Git for project tracking and code reviews.

Responsibilities

• Design and own API design across the infrastructure stack.
• Implement end-to-end automation pipelines for server provisioning, network, and storage.
• Build event-driven workflows propagating state changes across systems.
• Develop self-service interfaces (APIs/CLIs) with guardrails for resource management.
• Implement policy-as-code integrations for security via CMDB and automation layers.
• Contribute to CMDB data models and ensure forward compatibility of schemas.
• Model topological relationships between infrastructure components.

Skills

Python

RESTful APIs

Infra automation

APIs integration

Git/Atlassian

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

CMDB platforms

OpenAPI/Swagger

Job description

Squarepoint Capital’s Infrastructure Engineering team is driving API-first automation across bare metal provisioning, network, storage, and cloud. You’ll build the API fabric that connects the infrastructure stack, write production-quality Python, and own CMDB integration and data models.

This hands-on role emphasizes API design, systems integration, and scalable automation in a fast-paced financial environment.