Platform Engineer

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial market organization in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to support bespoke business applications and manage deployment processes. The ideal candidate must have experience in Windows and Linux systems, SQL databases, and automation tools. This permanent role offers a standard 40-hour work week with opportunities for collaboration and innovation in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019.
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems.
• Proficiency with database management systems like SQL Server and Oracle.
• Ability to work with web servers such as IIS and Apache Tomcat.
• Familiarity with the Atlassian suite for project management.

Responsibilities

• Commission and maintain bespoke business applications.
• Manage and automate systems and processes.
• Support continuous deployment pipelines.

Skills

Windows 10

Linux (Red Hat 6/7/8)

SQL Server

Oracle

IIS and Apache Tomcat

Atlassian Suite (JIRA, Confluence)

Scripting languages (Python, Perl)

Active Directory knowledge

Splunk or Elastic Search

Configuration management with Ansible

Job description

Overview

Platform Engineer

Shift Pattern: Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom)

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Corporate Grade: E - Associate

Reporting Line: (UK Division) Information Technology

Location: UK-London

Worker Type: Permanent

About the London Metal Exchange

The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world's global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LME's three trading platforms totalling $18 trillion, 178 million lots and 4 billion tonnes with a market open interest high of 1.8 million lots in 2024.

The metals community uses the LME, an HKEX Group company, as a venue to transfer or take on price risk, as a physical market of last resort and as the provider of transparent global reference prices.

Overall Purpose of Role

Sit within the Platform Engineering Team to commission, maintain, configure, manage and support bespoke business applications for the facilitation of Unit, Functional, Non-functional and User Acceptance Testing stream.

Work collaboratively within CPT department and with other operational teams to deploy and manage systems, help automate and streamline operations and processes, and troubleshoot issues within multiple environments.

Work with DevOps skilled resources to support establishing our continuous deployment pipeline, managing, monitoring and automating the company infrastructure using a variety of tools.

Responsibilities

• Technical installation, configuration and support of bespoke business application software for the purposes of Functional Test execution.
• Assist in the design, building and ongoing maintenance of new automated infrastructure
• Establish, implement and manage the methods of deployment (development, testing and production) and the processes and tools required to execute those deployments.
• Manage the software development tools used by the Software Engineering team and ensure they are scalable.
• Carry out verification and acceptance of bespoke business application software deployment kits and their release notes.
• Maintain, monitor and troubleshoot functional test environments (O/S, middleware and bespoke business application software)
• Compile and verify deployment instructions for onward installation of applications to Pre-Production and Production environments.
• Contribute to the future planning and direction of the use of 3rd party and bespoke software maintained by the team.
• Automate parts of the development delivery process using scripts and other appropriate tools - implement and update CI/CD pipelines.
• Devise and develop analytical methods and tools to measure the efficiency of products and processes.
• Assist in the design, building and ongoing maintenance of new automated infrastructure.

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience

• Windows 10, Windows Server 2012, 2016, 2019
• Linux (Red Hat 6/7/8) operating system knowledge
• SQL Server 2012/2014/2016/2017/2019
• Oracle 10g/11g/12g
• IIS and Apache Tomcat Web server skills
• Atlassian - JIRA/Confluence/Crowd/BitBucket/Bamboo, JFrog Artifactory and Zephyr Enterprise
• Scripting languages: Python, Perl, PowerShell, Bash, YAML, JScript
• Active Directory, DNS, IPA, FTP, sFTP, SSL, general networking / firewalls
• Splunk or Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana
• Working knowledge of Configuration management and "infrastructure-as-code" with Ansible/Puppet/Chef/Salt. (Ansible Tower expertise preferred)

The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression and reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.