Site Reliability Engineer | Quantitative Trading Firm | London (Hybrid)

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

Job summary

Hunter Bond in London is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to own and scale mission-critical trading platforms. You’ll design and run scalable, resilient infrastructure, and automate pipelines to accelerate delivery.

You will strengthen observability across global systems, build automation, and support large-scale containerized workloads using Kubernetes and Docker, while applying IaC and scripting skills. This role offers real ownership and substantial compensation.

Qualifications

• Background as 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.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

Observability

IaC

Scripting: Python/Go/Bash

Linux automation

Platform engineering

Job description

My client is one of the world's leading quantitative trading firms to hire a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / Platform Engineer in London.

The role

• You'll 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.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• 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 and SRE practices
• Base salary up to £250K, plus bonus and comprehensive benefits