Trading Infrastructure Graduate Program - 18-Month Rotations

Risk Hub; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 67,000 - 82,000; Full time

Job summary

Squarepoint is offering a Trading Infrastructure Rotation Programme designed to train a candidate across core systems and automation. The 18-month scheme includes structured mentoring and hands-on exposure to Linux, Kubernetes, HPC, and distributed storage, with rotation blocks into DevOps and Systems teams.

During the programme you will learn to triage incidents, automate tasks using Python, Bash, or Ansible, and participate in monitoring and logging pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, CS, or related field.
• Basic Linux knowledge.
• Familiarity with Python.
• Understanding of hardware infrastructure.
• Strong communication and organization under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshooting and automation across core systems.
• Engage with service owners on incidents.
• Support observability, schedulers, databases, and Linux.
• Contribute automation with Python, Bash, Ansible.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, logging pipelines.
• Document issues and update runbooks.

Skills

Basic Linux

Python familiarity

Hardware infrastructure basics

Calm under pressure

Organized workflow

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field

Tools

Containers

Kubernetes

VMs

Distributed storage

Telemetry tooling

CI/CD systems

Job description

Squarepoint is offering a Trading Infrastructure Rotation Programme designed to train a candidate across core systems and automation. The 18-month scheme includes structured mentoring and hands-on exposure to Linux, Kubernetes, HPC, and distributed storage, with rotation blocks into DevOps and Systems teams.

During the programme you will learn to triage incidents, automate tasks using Python, Bash, or Ansible, and participate in monitoring and logging pipelines.