Senior Infrastructure Engineer

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in the financial technology sector is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to enhance their cryptocurrency trading operations. In this pivotal role, you will architect and maintain mission-critical infrastructure, ensuring reliability and efficiency while implementing advanced automation solutions. Your expertise in AWS, Linux, and modern monitoring tools will be essential as you lead initiatives to optimize trading data management and service delivery. Join a team of top technologists and take your career to new heights in a dynamic and innovative environment that offers exceptional growth opportunities.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits

Career growth opportunities

Industry-leading compensation package

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Infrastructure operations experience

AWS cloud architecture

Linux systems administration

Monitoring solutions (Grafana, Prometheus)

Build and release optimization

Networking and troubleshooting

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Docker orchestration

Kubernetes orchestration

Infrastructure security best practices

CI/CD expertise

Distributed systems architecture

High-frequency trading infrastructure

Infrastructure automation

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Ansible

Splunk

Github Actions

Job description

Job Description

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 working with cutting-edge technologies in a high-performance environment with the best technologists in the industry.

Required Qualifications:

1. Proven infrastructure operations experience in financial technology or similar industry
2. Strong AWS cloud architecture expertise and advanced Linux systems administration
3. Demonstrated success with monitoring solutions (Grafana, Prometheus)
4. Experience optimizing build and release processes in trading environments
5. Networking and troubleshooting capabilities
6. Advanced Python and Bash scripting for automation
7. Extensive experience with Docker and Kubernetes orchestration
8. Proven track record managing blockchain nodes and infrastructure
9. Deep knowledge of infrastructure security best practices
10. Strong CI/CD expertise, particularly with Github Actions
11. Solid distributed systems architecture background
12. Experience with modern software development methodologies
13. High-frequency trading infrastructure experience
14. 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.

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