Infrastructure Support Engineer

Westren Capital; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 100 000 - 140 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Westren Capital in London seeks an Infrastructure Support Engineer to keep our high-availability trading platform running. You will manage servers, networks and connectivity to exchanges, and build reliable tooling to detect and prevent outages before they impact trading.

In a fast-paced, low-latency environment, you will own monitoring and incident response, contribute to deployment pipelines and configuration management, and collaborate with engineers and traders to keep systems healthy and

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or systems engineering in low-latency or high-availability env.
• Strong Linux knowledge, including networking and performance tuning.
• Scripting in Python, Bash for automation and tooling.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems.
• Able to work under pressure in a high-stakes environment.
• Experience supporting trading systems is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Monitor and maintain the firm's core infrastructure, including servers, networking, and connectivity to exchanges and venues.
• Respond to and resolve infrastructure incidents quickly, with clear communication to affected trading and engineering teams.
• Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and automation to catch problems before they become incidents.
• Support engineers and traders with infrastructure needs, from provisioning to troubleshooting, without becoming a bottleneck.
• Maintain and improve deployment pipelines, configuration management, and system reliability practices.
• Participate in on-call rotation, given that markets, and the systems trading in them, don't keep office hours.

Connaissances

Linux systems

Networking

Scripting

Python

DevOps

Monitoring

On-call

Outils

Monitoring tools

Description du poste

# Infrastructure Support EngineerAnnual base salary: £100,000 – £140,000 GBP## Role overviewWestren Capital is a London-based proprietary trading firm specialising in digital asset markets. This role sits within our infrastructure team, responsible for the systems, networks, and tooling that keep trading operations running around the clock.Digital asset markets do not close. Neither does the responsibility for keeping the systems that trade in them healthy, which makes this role as much about prevention as it is about response.## Responsibilities* —Monitor and maintain the firm's core infrastructure, including servers, networking, and connectivity to exchanges and venues* —Respond to and resolve infrastructure incidents quickly, with clear communication to affected trading and engineering teams* —Build and improve monitoring, alerting, and automation to catch problems before they become incidents* —Support engineers and traders with infrastructure needs, from provisioning to troubleshooting, without becoming a bottleneck* —Maintain and improve deployment pipelines, configuration management, and system reliability practices* —Participate in on-call rotation, given that markets, and the systems trading in them, don't keep office hours## Requirements* —Demonstrated experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or systems engineering, ideally in a low-latency or high-availability environment* —Strong Linux systems knowledge, including networking, performance tuning, and troubleshooting under pressure* —Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or similar for automation and tooling* —Experience with monitoring and alerting systems, and a bias toward catching problems early rather than explaining them after* —Comfortable working in a high-stakes environment where downtime has immediate, visible cost* —Prior experience supporting trading systems or other latency-sensitive infrastructure is a strong advantage