Senior Compute Platform Engineer – Scale & Automate Infra

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer (Compute) to lead the architecture and evolution of a global, high-performance compute platform in London. You will write production code, build internal tooling, and drive automation and observability across regions to support research and trading.

You will collaborate with engineering teams worldwide, influence best practices, mentor juniors, and participate in on-call rotations. London relocation is available for the right candidate.

Qualifications

• Experience with configuration management tooling and scalable infrastructure design.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language for tooling (Python, Go or Rust).
• Strong knowledge of IaC (Terraform or Pulumi) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Experience with observability stack and logging/metrics pipelines.
• Familiarity with IAM, security controls and authentication protocols.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices.
• Build automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management and lifecycle operations.
• Develop internal tooling and APIs that hide infrastructure complexity and boost productivity.
• Drive observability with telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs and traces.
• Participate in bulk server provisioning and remote hands activities.
• Partner with software engineers on scalability, reliability and security.
• Join on-call rotations and drive postmortem-driven improvements.

Skills

Configuration management

Infrastructure tooling

Cloud platforms

Monitoring & observability

Security & IAM

DevOps practices

Git workflows

Self-motivated learner

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Chef

SaltStack

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

GCP / Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK/OpenTelemetry/Jaeger

Job description

Hunter Bond is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer (Compute) to lead the architecture and evolution of a global, high-performance compute platform in London. You will write production code, build internal tooling, and drive automation and observability across regions to support research and trading.

You will collaborate with engineering teams worldwide, influence best practices, mentor juniors, and participate in on-call rotations. London relocation is available for the right candidate.