Senior Platform Engineer - Kubernetes at Scale

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business; Greater London; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business in London seeks a Platform Engineer to run Kubernetes at scale, building reliable platforms for engineers, researchers and investment teams. The role focuses on developer experience and operating large-scale distributed infra.

You will work on Kubernetes clusters, low-level configuration, Istio, and CI/CD automation across cloud and on-prem. No finance background required if you have deep tech experience; massive scale and ownership of platform

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience running and managing Kubernetes clusters at scale.
• Experience with Istio or service mesh.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python or Go.
• Experience operating production systems across cloud and on-prem.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate large-scale, distributed infrastructure.
• Improve developer experience and platform reliability.
• Manage Kubernetes clusters and low-level configuration.
• Collaborate with engineers across the business.

Skills

Platform Engineering

SRE

DevOps

Kubernetes

Istio

Python

Go

Distributed systems

CI/CD

Cloud & on-prem

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent Business in London seeks a Platform Engineer to run Kubernetes at scale, building reliable platforms for engineers, researchers and investment teams. The role focuses on developer experience and operating large-scale distributed infra.

You will work on Kubernetes clusters, low-level configuration, Istio, and CI/CD automation across cloud and on-prem. No finance background required if you have deep tech experience; massive scale and ownership of platform