Site Reliability Engineer | Quant Trading Firm | London | up to £250K + Bonus

Hunter Bond; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Hunter Bond is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer/SRE to own the mission-critical infrastructure that underpins a globally scaled quant trading platform. You will design, build, and operate scalable systems, champion CI/CD, and drive reliability in a high-performance environment.

Join a team of exceptional engineers in London, with ownership of platform strategy and hands-on execution across Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC tooling.

Qualifications

• Experience as Platform Engineer, SRE, or DevOps with ownership of platforms.
• Strong Linux and automation skills.
• Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on Kubernetes and Docker.
• Observability and monitoring proficiency.
• Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Scripting or programming in Python, Go, Bash, or similar.
• Passion for reliable, highly available platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and run scalable, resilient platform infrastructure.
• Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines to speed up software delivery.
• Strengthen observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting.
• Build automation and self-service tooling engineers genuinely rely on.
• Support containerised workloads and orchestration at large scale.
• Drive reliability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems and middleware.

Skills

Platform Engineer

SRE

DevOps

Linux

Automation

CI/CD

Observability

IaC

Scripting

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Build the infrastructure backbone of a global quant trading powerhouse, up to £250K + bonus.

One of the world’s leading quantitative trading firms is hiring an SRE / Platform Engineer to own the platforms behind mission-critical trading systems that run at global scale, around the clock. You’ll have real technical ownership and work alongside exceptional engineers.

What you’ll do

• Design, build, and run scalable, resilient platform infrastructure
• Own and optimise CI/CD pipelines to speed up software delivery
• Strengthen observability: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting
• Build automation and self-service tooling engineers genuinely rely on
• Support containerised workloads and orchestration at large scale
• Drive reliability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems and middleware

What you’ll bring

• Background as a Platform Engineer, SRE, or DevOps Engineer
• Strong Linux and automation skills
• Proven track record building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Hands-on Kubernetes and Docker
• Solid grasp of monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
• Infrastructure as Code experience
• Scripting or programming in Python, Go, Bash, or similar
• Real passion for reliable, highly available platforms

Why this role

• Real ownership of large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure
• Work with exceptional engineers in a high-performance environment
• Complex engineering challenges using modern DevOps/SRE practices
• Up to £250K, plus bonus and comprehensive benefits