Platform Engineer - Banking and Finance

Hamilton Barnes Associates Limited; Illinois; On-site; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

A proprietary trading firm is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance its high-performance trading infrastructure. The role focuses on automating deployments, building self-service provisioning, and improving monitoring systems. Candidates should have strong experience with Kubernetes, Prometheus, and CI/CD best practices. This is an opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where solving complex challenges drives significant impact across global markets. Competitive compensation is offered, with the total compensation package going up to $250,000.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting high-performance, mission-critical trading systems.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in deployment, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Ansible, and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Automate deployment patterns across containerized and non-containerized workloads.
• Build self-service infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
• Drive CI/CD improvements and advocate modern software delivery practices.
• Enhance monitoring and alerting to surface meaningful signals.
• Research and implement technologies for orchestration and workload management.

Skills

High-performance trading systems support

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Linux systems knowledge

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Do you want to join a global leader within the high frequency trading space?

Join a global proprietary trading firm operating at the intersection of trading, research, and high-performance technology. The organisation balances advanced modelling, engineering, and quantitative expertise to identify opportunities across global financial markets, trading a wide range of asset classes with its own capital. With over 30 years of innovation, the team combines the agility of a startup with the stability of an established firm, fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning.

They are seeking a Platform Engineer to join a high-performance trading infrastructure team. Help deploy, scale, and observe mission-critical systems, making deployments faster, infrastructure more self-service, and system health more visible.

Apply now to be part of a high-performance environment where solving complex problems drives real impact across global markets!

Responsibilities

• Automate deployment patterns across containerized and non-containerized workloads
• Build self-service infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible
• Drive CI/CD improvements and advocate modern software delivery practices
• Enhance monitoring and alerting to surface meaningful signals and support proactive capacity management
• Research and implement technologies to improve orchestration, workload management, and system visibility
• Learn and support in-house tools for infrastructure management in a hybrid working model.

Requirements

• Experience supporting high-performance, mission-critical trading systems
• Strong Kubernetes experience (deployment, troubleshooting, optimization)
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Ansible, Terraform
• Solid Linux systems knowledge
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software delivery best practices

Salary

• Up to 250,000 total comp