Platform Engineer

Ocean Red Partners; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Overview

Company | Financial Markets, Trading Technology

Position | Platform Engineer

Impact | Scaling Infrastructure, Automating Workflows, Enhancing Security

Size | 500+ employees

Skills | AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Python, Kubernetes, DevOps

Location | London

Hybrid | 3 days a week in-office

Offer | Competitive Salary + Bonus + Benefits

Benefits | Pension, Private Healthcare, Learning & Development Budget, Generous Leave Policy

The Challenges You’ll Solve

Scaling Infrastructure at Speed

• The firm’s trading systems demand a highly available, low-latency platform that scales without bottlenecks.
• You’ll design and refine the infrastructure to handle surges in market activity and ensure smooth operations.

Automating Everything

• Manual processes slow teams down—you’ll work on removing friction by automating provisioning, deployments, and monitoring.
• From Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) to self-service tooling, you’ll create solutions that give developers control while maintaining security.

Making Security a First-Class Citizen

• Trading firms are prime targets for cyber threats—security can’t be an afterthought.
• You’ll embed security into the entire SDLC, ensuring least privilege access, compliance, and governance while keeping deployment speeds high.

Building a Developer-First Platform

• Developers want to ship code fast, but not at the cost of stability or security.
• You’ll work on CI/CD pipelines that enable safe, rapid deployments while giving engineers insight into their applications in production.

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Challenges

• The firm runs cloud-native (AWS) and on-premises workloads—both need to work together seamlessly.
• You’ll define best practices for hybrid cloud deployments, balancing cost, performance, and resilience.

What You Bring to the Table

• You’ve scaled infrastructure in a high-traffic environment.
• You think in automation-first principles—whether it’s Terraform, Ansible, or Python.
• You understand AWS (or Azure) and how to build for security, reliability, and speed.
• You see CI/CD pipelines as the backbone of modern development.
• You love solving complex problems and eliminating inefficiencies.

Interview Process | CV Review > Screening Call with Us > Submission > Technical Interview > Final Interview > Offer