Platform Specialist - Observability

Squarepoint Capital; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Squarepoint Capital is seeking a Platform Applications Specialist to enhance their platform infrastructure. The role focuses on automation, monitoring, and scaling services within a DevOps environment, requiring a blend of engineering knowledge and hands-on problem-solving skills. Suitable candidates will possess extensive experience in DevOps and a degree in a related discipline, with opportunities for architectural influence and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Experience with distributed applications at scale in Kubernetes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Delivering mission-critical platform infrastructure using DevOps methodology.
• Building and maintaining automated platform solutions and services.
• Ensuring high quality of monitoring, tracing, and alerting infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Git

Kubernetes

Bash

Linux

Containerization

Communication

Education

Degree in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Elastic stack

Ansible

Terraform

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Posted:

17.06.2025

Expiry Date:

01.08.2025

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Job Description:

Department: Application Engineering

Position Overview: As a Platform Applications Specialist at Squarepoint, you will play a crucial technical role in delivering mission-critical platform infrastructure using the DevOps methodology.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to work with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain automated platform solutions and services used across the firm. You will also be responsible for designing, monitoring, and scaling platform infrastructure, and automating everyday tasks with scripting and configuration management tools.

As a member of the Observability stream, you will be responsible for ensuring the high quality of the monitoring, tracing and alerting infrastructure in the company. You will have the opportunity to shape both the architecture and user experience to offer the most out of our platform.

Required Qualifications:

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline.
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Experience with software development (at least Python, Git - Golang or Rust additionally appreciated)
• Experience with an observability stack such as Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Vector, Elastic stack, Grafana, and AlertManager.
• Experience with operating highly distributed applications at scale in Kubernetes.
• Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Bash, Linux, Containerization)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have:

• Experience with creating and operating Kubernetes Operators.
• Experience with advanced software engineering concepts.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management, such as Ansible and Terraform.