Platform Application Specialist

Squarepoint Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 89,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent financial services firm in Greater London is seeking a Platform Services Specialist. The role involves designing, monitoring, and scaling mission-critical platform infrastructure while employing DevOps methodologies. Candidates should have a degree in a relevant field and 4+ years of experience in DevOps roles. The firm offers competitive compensation, including bonuses and various benefits, including health and wellness plans.

Benefits

Discretionary bonuses

Health insurance

Dental plans

401(k) contributions

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Software development experience with Python.
• Experience with system administration and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Designing, monitoring, and scaling platform infrastructure.
• Enhancing operational efficiency and developing CI/CD pipelines.
• Creating self-service workflows for developers and researchers.

Skills

DevOps methodology

Python

Linux

Bash

Containerization

Infrastructure automation

Configuration management

Education

Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

Job description

Role Overview

As a Platform Services Specialist at Squarepoint, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering and maintaining mission‑critical platform infrastructure using the DevOps methodology. You will work with a diverse group of stakeholders, including developers, researchers, and infrastructure teams, to build, automate, and scale the solutions and services used across the firm.

You will be responsible for designing, monitoring, and scaling our platform infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to make a significant impact on the productivity and efficiency of our teams by enhancing operational efficiency, developing CI/CD pipelines, creating self‑service workflows, and directly improving the developer and researcher experience.

While you may have deep expertise in only one or more areas, you will be able to contribute across the entire ecosystem. Our platform domains include:

• Observability: Monitoring, tracing, logging, and alerting infrastructure.
• Scheduling & Orchestration: HPC schedulers and container orchestration for compute‑intensive workloads.
• Development Tools: CI/CD pipelines, version control, artifact repositories, and developer platforms.
• Middleware: Critical applications like messaging queues, service discovery, and load balancing.
• Databases: A wide range of relational, NoSQL, and time‑series database systems.
• Automation: Infrastructure automation, configuration management, and self‑service enablement.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Software development experience with Python.
• Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Linux, Bash, Containerization).
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management experience (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet).

The minimum base salary for this role is $120,000 if located in New York. This expectation is based on available information at the time of posting. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses, which could constitute a significant portion of total compensation. This role may also be eligible for benefits, such as health, dental, and other wellness plans, as well as 401(k) contributions. Successful candidates’ compensation and benefits will be determined in consideration of various factors.