Platform Engineer: High-Performance Trading Infra & CI/CD

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

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.