Senior Infrastructure Engineer

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to enhance their Crypto Assets division. In this pivotal role, you'll architect and maintain critical infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading operations, ensuring reliability and performance. You'll leverage advanced automation tools like Terraform and Ansible to modernize build and release pipelines, while collaborating with top technologists in a high-frequency trading environment. This role offers a unique opportunity to drive continuous improvement initiatives and work with cutting-edge technologies, all within a firm that values innovation and offers exceptional career growth opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Exceptional career growth opportunities

Industry-leading compensation package

Qualifications

• Proven experience in infrastructure operations within financial technology.
• Strong expertise in AWS and advanced Linux administration.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain critical infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading.
• Drive excellence in production environments and optimize service delivery.

Skills

Infrastructure operations experience

AWS cloud architecture

Linux systems administration

Monitoring solutions expertise

Networking and troubleshooting

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Docker orchestration

Kubernetes orchestration

CI/CD expertise

Infrastructure security best practices

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Grafana

Prometheus

PagerDuty

Github Actions

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Senior Infrastructure Engineer - High Frequency Trading Firm:

A leading £30BN AUM global systematic hedge fund is looking for an exceptional Infrastructure Engineer to join their Crypto Assets division. In this senior role, you'll architect and maintain mission-critical infrastructure powering their cryptocurrency trading operations. You'll be responsible for ensuring world-class production environment reliability while implementing sophisticated monitoring solutions through their technology stack, including Splunk, Telegraf/Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty.

Role Impact:

You'll drive excellence across production and non-production environments, optimizing trading data management, service delivery, and server operations. Your focus will include modernizing build and release pipelines for trading applications and network infrastructure. Leading continuous improvement initiatives, you'll enhance the infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and efficiency through advanced automation with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible while while working with cutting-edge technologies in a high-performance environment with the best technologists in the industry.

Required Qualifications:

• Proven infrastructure operations experience in financial technology or similar industry
• Strong AWS cloud architecture expertise and advanced Linux systems administration
• Demonstrated success with monitoring solutions (Grafana, Prometheus)
• Experience optimizing build and release processes in trading environments
• Networking and troubleshooting capabilities
• Advanced Python and Bash scripting for automation
• Extensive experience with Docker and Kubernetes orchestration
• Proven track record managing blockchain nodes and infrastructure
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure security best practices
• Strong CI/CD expertise, particularly with Github Actions
• Solid distributed systems architecture background
• Experience with modern software development methodologies
• High-frequency trading infrastructure experience is preferred
• History of implementing large-scale infrastructure automation

The firm offers an industry-leading compensation package, comprehensive benefits, and exceptional career growth opportunities within their growing organization.