Systems Engineer (Compute): £150,000 + Bonus (Fintech)

Hunter Bond; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 135.000 - 165.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Hunter Bond is seeking an experienced Systems Engineer (Compute) to lead the architecture and evolution of a global, high-performance compute platform in London. You will write production code, build internal tooling, and drive automation and observability across regions to support research and trading.

You will collaborate with engineering teams worldwide, influence best practices, mentor juniors, and participate in on-call rotations. London relocation is available for the right candidate.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with configuration management tooling and scalable infrastructure design.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language for tooling (Python, Go or Rust).
• Strong knowledge of IaC (Terraform or Pulumi) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Experience with observability stack and logging/metrics pipelines.
• Familiarity with IAM, security controls and authentication protocols.

Aufgaben

• Architect and evolve scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices.
• Build automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management and lifecycle operations.
• Develop internal tooling and APIs that hide infrastructure complexity and boost productivity.
• Drive observability with telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs and traces.
• Participate in bulk server provisioning and remote hands activities.
• Partner with software engineers on scalability, reliability and security.
• Join on-call rotations and drive postmortem-driven improvements.

Kenntnisse

Configuration management

Infrastructure tooling

Cloud platforms

Monitoring & observability

Security & IAM

DevOps practices

Git workflows

Self-motivated learner

Ausbildung

Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Chef

SaltStack

Terraform

Pulumi

AWS

GCP / Azure

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

ELK/OpenTelemetry/Jaeger

Jobbeschreibung

Systems Engineer (Compute) - Systematic Trading - [London/Relocation available]

£150,000 + bonus & benefits |

The opportunity

A leading global systematic investment firm is looking for an experienced platform engineer to join its core compute team. The firm runs high-performance, data-intensive workloads across regions, and this team builds the infrastructure underneath them. You'll architect and evolve the compute platform, working closely with engineering teams worldwide.

Why consider it?

• Hands-on engineering: you write production code and build internal tooling and APIs, not just run tickets.
• Real scale: large, global, performance-critical compute supporting research and trading.
• Influence: you help set best practice and mentor junior engineers.
• Automation-first culture: incidents lead to architectural fixes, not just firefighting.
• Unlimited tech budgets! Tech is an asset, not a cost

What you'll be doing

• Architecting and evolving scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices
• Building automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management and lifecycle operations
• Developing internal tooling and APIs that hide infrastructure complexity and boost productivity
• Driving observability with telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs and traces
• Taking part in bulk server provisioning, including working with remote hands
• Partnering with software engineers on scalability, reliability and security
• Joining on-call and incident response, and turning postmortems into long-term improvements

What we're looking for

• Configuration management (Ansible, Chef or SaltStack)
• Python, Go or Rust for infrastructure tooling
• Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulumi)
• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP or Azure) across compute, storage, networking and IAM
• Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix) plus logging and tracing (ELK, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
• Identity and access management (LDAP, Kerberos, OAuth2)
• Git workflows, test-driven infrastructure and a DevOps mindset
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar