Trading Infrastructure Specialist – Graduate Program

Squarepoint Capital; 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

Trading Infrastructure Specialists play an important role maintaining mission critical trading software and systems in the Squarepoint technology stack.

In this role you will be joining our Trading Infrastructure Support Team on an 18-month rotation programme. During this time, you will be exposed to a wide array of technologies across our Infrastructure estate and be supported by established members of the team.

At the end of the rotation, you will have the tools and knowledge to move into one of our DevOps/Systems teams, or you can opt to stay within Trading Infrastructure Support.

Things you will learn

You will be enrolled in a structured training programme with a dedicated mentor who will support you throughout your journey here at Squarepoint. Within the first few months you will learn about the tech stacks for our infrastructure teams and gain exposure to our application stack for trading.

You will work alongside our support team to learn how we address user issues, understand our handling standards, and gain the ability to triage and prioritise problems as they come up. You will have the opportunity to work with technologies such as Linux, Kubernetes, high-performance computing (HPC), distributed storage, load balancing, and more.

Towards the end of the programme there will be 1-week rotations within our DevOps and Systems teams so that you can gain hands-on experience within those areas.

Day-to-day responsibilities

Once initial training is complete, a normal day in this role could involve

• Troubleshooting and automation across a wide array of core systems
• Engaging with service owners on day-to-day operational issues, triage, manage and resolving incidents
• Supporting observability, workload schedulers, databases, and Linux systems depending on team needs.
• Contributing to automation tasks using Python, Bash, or Ansible.
• Maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging pipelines
• Document issues, update runbooks, to aid your colleagues

Required skills

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Computer Science, or related field
• Basic Linux knowledge
• Familiarity with Python
• Understanding of fundamentals of hardware infrastructure
• The ability to remain calm under pressure, assess competing priorities and remain well-organised
• Scientific curiousity and desire to learn and continuously improve system performance
• Good communication skills

Nice to have

• Exposure to one or more of containers, Kubernetes, VMs, Distributed Storage
• Understanding of modern telemetry tooling
• Interest in HPC, Schedulers, or CI/CD systems

The minimum base salary for this role is $100,000 if located in New York. This expectation is based on available information at the time of posting. This role may be eligible for discretionary bonuses, which could constitute a significant portion of total compensation. This role may also be eligible for benefits, such as health, dental, and other wellness plans, as well as 401(k) contributions. Successful candidates’ compensation and benefits will be determined in consideration of various factors.