Platform Engineer

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial exchange in Greater London is seeking a Platform Engineer to support the management of bespoke business applications and automate processes. The successful candidate will work closely with operational teams and utilize various tools to establish a continuous deployment pipeline. Required skills include expertise in multiple environments like Windows and Linux, along with experience in SQL and Oracle databases. This is a full-time permanent role that values diversity and equal opportunity.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Windows 10 and server environments.
• Proficient in Linux operating systems.
• Experience with SQL Server and Oracle databases.

Responsibilities

• Configure and support bespoke business applications.
• Manage software development tools for scalability.
• Automate development delivery processes.

Skills

Windows 10

Linux (Red Hat 6 / 7 / 8)

SQL Server 2012/2014/2016/2017/2019

Oracle 10g/11g/12g

IIS and Apache Tomcat

Atlassian JIRA

Python

Active Directory

Splunk or Elastic Search

Configuration management

Tools

Ansible

Job description

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 worlds 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 window server
• 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 doing so we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1