Platform / System Engineer

Pulsar; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cryptocurrency firm in London is looking for a Platform Engineer. This role requires expertise in infrastructure and cloud environments, particularly AWS, alongside strong Linux skills. As part of a non-hierarchical organization, you will support a global operations team, collaborate closely with developers, and drive process improvements. This position values flexibility and a willingness to learn in the dynamic crypto space.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years experience in an infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform engineer role.
• Production experience in a global cloud environment.
• Strong networking experience in a multi-region setup.

Responsibilities

• Act as infrastructure SME for a global web scraping function.
• Analyze and own performance/process improvements.
• Work effectively in a global multi-cloud setup.

Skills

Proactive analysis

Collaboration

Flexibility

Network stack expertise

Strong Linux knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

• You are pioneering and innovative and want to be part of the cutting-edge and disruptive crypto currency world
• You are eager to learn new knowledge in both financial and technical fields
• You thrive in a non-hierarchical organization with a casual working environment
• You are flexible and dedicated

Team / Role

As a Platform Engineer, you will:

• Act as infrastructure SME for a 24x7x365 globally distributed ethical web scraping function, supporting a multi region high frequency operation
• Be able to proactively analyze, drive, and own, performance and process improvements along all parts of the chain
• Collaborate closely with development team in terms of architecture/prioritization
• Liaise closely and collaboratively with central infrastructure team, in terms of common infrastructure/improving standards across the estate
• Work effectively in a global multi-cloud set up, in terms of initiating/managing relationships, evaluation/onboarding of new providers, and improving internal processes in line with best-of-breed industry practices
• Be a Linux/network stack expert and utilise that knowledge in the context of tuning/optimization and production support
• Support the platform during business hours, and out-of-hours as part of a rota, and proactively chase ways to reduce/design out manual support overhead

Required skillset

You should get in touch if:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other technical discipline (or equivalent experience)
• 2-4 years of solid working experience in an infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform engineer role
• Production experience in a global cloud environment. Demonstrable AWS and strong networking experience in a multi-region and/or multi-cloud set up is essential.
• Strong Linux / network stack knowledge, as well as optimization/tuning

Exposure and experience in the following areas would be a distinct advantage:

• Forward proxy tooling (e.g. Squid)
• CDN (Content Delivery Network) experience on production API/website
• Demonstrable experience of external vendor relationship management

Nice to haves

• Containerization (Docker / Kubernetes) in a production environment
• Monitoring tools in a production environment (Prometheus / Grafana / ELK stack / Splunk)

If you are interested, submit your application now.