Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud and Tooling Advocate

Spreadex Limited; St Albans; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary & bonus

Hybrid work

Remote weeks

Leave 25–30 days

Pension scheme

Medical insurance

Work-life balance

Job summary

Spreadex Limited in St Albans is seeking a talented Platform Engineer to join our Platform Team. You will build and operate the platform that underpins our award-winning trading platforms and the tools that support software engineers to develop, test and deploy applications.

We work with AWS, Linux, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, HAProxy, Consul, Grafana and OpenSearch, plus Terraform and more. Our stack includes C#/.NET, Node.js and Python, with Azure DevOps Pipelines and ArgoCD.

Qualifications

• Experience in a software engineering role (ideally C#/.NET, but also Python, Node.js, Powershell or Bash)
• Experience with cloud (ideally AWS) and infrastructure as code (ideally Terraform)
• Strong communication skills
• Hands-on experience of AI tools and knowledge of AI practices
• Desirable: Kubernetes and related technologies (Linux/Docker)
• Desirable: Observability and monitoring tools
• Desirable: Security principles and best practices
• Desirable: Enthusiasm to learn different technologies and adapt to evolving industry

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the platform that underpins the trading platforms and the tools that support engineers to develop, test and deploy applications
• Contribute to AI-enabled tooling and processes to improve developer workflows
• Work with technologies including AWS, Linux, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, HAProxy, Consul, Grafana, OpenSearch, Terraform and more
• Collaborate with software engineers and platform team to deliver reliable, scalable infrastructure

Skills

Software engineering

C#/.NET

Python

Node.js

Powershell

Bash

AWS

Terraform

Communication

AI tools

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Grafana

OpenSearch

HAProxy

Consul

Terraform

Azure DevOps Pipelines

ArgoCD

Job description

Spreadex Limited in St Albans is seeking a talented Platform Engineer to join our Platform Team. You will build and operate the platform that underpins our award-winning trading platforms and the tools that support software engineers to develop, test and deploy applications.

We work with AWS, Linux, Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, HAProxy, Consul, Grafana and OpenSearch, plus Terraform and more. Our stack includes C#/.NET, Node.js and Python, with Azure DevOps Pipelines and ArgoCD.