Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Infra, CI/CD & Reliability

Oxford Knight; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxford Knight is seeking world-class engineers to help build on our success in prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets. The role focuses on automating infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability for large-scale distributed systems.

You will work with AWS services, Terraform or AWS CDK, Python, Kafka/Kinesis, Datadog and CloudWatch, ensuring high availability and performance of PostgreSQL/QuestDB, and leading incident response.

Qualifications

• Extensive AWS experience with a broad service set and high availability.
• Proficient Python programming and automation capabilities.
• Hands-on with IaC tools Terraform and AWS CDK and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Automate infrastructure and workflows using Terraform and AWS CDK.
• Develop & optimize CI/CD pipelines with CodeBuild, GitHub Actions, Terraform Enterprise.
• Implement observability with Datadog and CloudWatch for real-time monitoring.
• Ensure high availability and performance of PostgreSQL and time-series databases.

Skills

AWS Expertise

Python

Terraform

Kinesis/Kafka

Observability

Incident management

Distributed systems

Tools

Terraform

AWS CDK

Datadog

CloudWatch

Kafka/Kinesis

Job description

Oxford Knight is seeking world-class engineers to help build on our success in prime brokerage, clearing and financing across traditional and digital assets. The role focuses on automating infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and observability for large-scale distributed systems.

You will work with AWS services, Terraform or AWS CDK, Python, Kafka/Kinesis, Datadog and CloudWatch, ensuring high availability and performance of PostgreSQL/QuestDB, and leading incident response.