Platform Engineer

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business in London seeks a Platform Engineer to run Kubernetes at scale, building reliable platforms for engineers, researchers and investment teams. The role focuses on developer experience and operating large-scale distributed infra.

You will work on Kubernetes clusters, low-level configuration, Istio, and CI/CD automation across cloud and on-prem. No finance background required if you have deep tech experience; massive scale and ownership of platform

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience running and managing Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Experience with Istio or service mesh.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or Go.
• Experience operating production systems across cloud and on-prem.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate large-scale, distributed infrastructure.
• Improve developer experience and platform reliability.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and low-level configuration.
• Collaborate with engineers across the business.

Skills

Platform Engineering

SRE

DevOps

Kubernetes

Istio

Python

Go

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Cloud & on-prem

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Platform Engineer | Hedge Fund | London | up to £300k TC

You don't need a hedge fund background for this one. You need to know how to run Kubernetes at serious scale.

I'm partnered with one of the leading funds in London and New York, and they're investing heavily in Platform Engineering and Developer Experience. This is a particularly strong opportunity for someone coming from a high-scale technology environment who wants to take on a bigger engineering challenge without needing finance on their CV.

The team builds the platforms that enable engineers, researchers and investment teams to build, test, ship and run software at serious scale.

You'll be working on large-scale, highly distributed infrastructure, solving the kinds of engineering problems that come with supporting a global technology organization. The focus is on building reliable platforms, improving developer experience and making it easier for engineers to ship software at scale.

You'll be running Kubernetes clusters, working at the infrastructure level and getting into low-level configuration, including technologies such as Istio.

What you'll bring

• Strong experience in Platform Engineering, SRE or DevOps
• Hands-on experience running and managing Kubernetes clusters
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes at a low level, including configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience with Istio or service mesh technologies
• Strong software engineering skills, ideally with Python or Go
• Experience working with large-scale, distributed systems
• Deep CI/CD and automation experience
• Experience operating production systems across cloud and on-prem

Why consider it?

• No finance background required: your experience working with complex technology environments is what matters
• Massive scale: distributed infrastructure supporting thousands of engineers, applications and workloads
• Hands-on engineering: you're building, configuring and operating the underlying platform
• Serious Kubernetes work: cluster management, low-level configuration and service infrastructure
• Real ownership: build platforms that other engineers across the business rely on
• Platform Engineering & DevEx: significant investment in improving how engineers build and ship software

If you're coming from a major tech company, large-scale SaaS business or another environment where you've had to operate Kubernetes and distributed infrastructure at scale, this could be a very interesting route into finance without needing finance experience.