Senior Infrastructure Engineer

JR United Kingdom; Slough; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading £30BN AUM global systematic hedge fund is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer for their Crypto Assets division. In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining reliable infrastructure, optimizing trading data management, and ensuring high-performance operations through advanced technologies. The firm offers a competitive compensation package and exceptional career growth within a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Industry-leading compensation package

Comprehensive benefits

Exceptional career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven infrastructure operations experience in financial technology.
• Strong AWS cloud architecture expertise and advanced Linux systems administration.
• Experience optimizing build and release processes in trading environments.

Responsibilities

• Architect and maintain critical infrastructure for cryptocurrency trading.
• Drive excellence across production and non-production environments.
• Implement advanced automation with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Ansible.

Skills

Infrastructure operations

AWS cloud architecture

Linux systems administration

Monitoring solutions

Build and release processes optimization

Networking and troubleshooting

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Docker orchestration

Kubernetes orchestration

Infrastructure security

CI/CD expertise

Distributed systems architecture

Job description

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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.