Platform Engineer: Cloud Infra, CI/CD & Observability

Validus Risk Management; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration package

Pension contributions

Regular social events

Financial support towards professional qualifications

Job summary

A technology-enabled advisory firm in Greater London seeks a Platform Engineer to enhance its AWS infrastructure and support developer tooling. The role involves developing cloud-native services and optimizing CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with quantitative teams. Candidates should have at least 1 year of Python experience and familiarity with AWS services. Notable benefits include a competitive remuneration package, pension contributions, and support for professional qualifications.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of commercial experience with Python in a Platform or Back-end setting.
• Experience with AWS services like Lambda, ECS, RDS, S3.
• Experience with databases such as MySQL and MongoDB.
• Familiarity with IaC tools such as CDK or Terraform.
• Experience in building and optimising CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud-native services on AWS.
• Collaborate with the Quant team for cloud infrastructure.
• Contribute to job scheduling framework improvements.
• Integrate and maintain third-party tools like Datadog.
• Support containerisation of services on AWS.

Skills

Python

AWS

CI/CD pipelines

IaC tools (CDK, Terraform, Pulumi)

Monitoring and observability (Datadog, New Relic)

Database technologies (MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB)

Job description

A technology-enabled advisory firm in Greater London seeks a Platform Engineer to enhance its AWS infrastructure and support developer tooling. The role involves developing cloud-native services and optimizing CI/CD pipelines while collaborating with quantitative teams. Candidates should have at least 1 year of Python experience and familiarity with AWS services. Notable benefits include a competitive remuneration package, pension contributions, and support for professional qualifications.