Senior Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Ops & Reliability

Trayport; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

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Diversity & inclusion

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Job summary

Trayport is hiring a Principal Platform Engineer to be a senior technical anchor in Platform/Operations. The role is 70% hands-on engineering, designing, building, and operating infrastructure that keeps a global trading platform running, while mentoring the wider team.

Core focus includes leading AI adoption within operations using LLM-based tooling and automation to reduce toil and improve incident response. You will also contribute as a technical leader across cross-team projects.

Qualifications

• Operations or SRE background with highly available production platforms.
• Deep hands-on AWS (VPC, networking, EKS) and Azure (AKS, Key Vault, networking).
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing, firewalls, load balancing, hybrid connectivity.
• Production Kubernetes experience at scale, including day-2 operations.
• Infrastructure-as-code and automation as default (Terraform, Ansible); scripting in Python/Go/Bash.
• Demonstrable use of AI tooling to improve engineering or operational workflows.
• Credibility and communication skills to mentor senior engineers and influence design decisions.
• Understanding of different database technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and on-prem.
• Own network design and implementation across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Ensure high availability with multi-region/AZ architectures and DR planning.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines as products.
• Define and monitor SLOs, error budgets, and observability standards.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive reliability improvements.

Skills

Cloud platforms

SRE

Kubernetes

IaC

Automation

Networking

Python/Go/Bash

AI tooling

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Copilot

Job description

Trayport is hiring a Principal Platform Engineer to be a senior technical anchor in Platform/Operations. The role is 70% hands-on engineering, designing, building, and operating infrastructure that keeps a global trading platform running, while mentoring the wider team.

Core focus includes leading AI adoption within operations using LLM-based tooling and automation to reduce toil and improve incident response. You will also contribute as a technical leader across cross-team projects.