Systems Engineer

I am partnering with a leading global quantitative trading firm that engineers some of the most advanced technology in financial markets. Every microsecond matters, and the infrastructure powering its research and trading platforms is built for performance, scale, and reliability.

As a Systems Engineer, you will join a world-class infrastructure team responsible for designing, operating, and continuously improving large-scale Linux, HPC, cloud, and storage environments that support thousands of compute-intensive workloads.

Day-today:

• Designing and operating high-performance compute and storage infrastructure across on-premise and cloud environments
• Managing large-scale Linux systems spanning networking, storage, automation and monitoring
• Optimising HPC clusters, batch scheduling and container platforms
• Building cloud infrastructure across AWS, GCP and Azure
• Developing internal tooling and automation that improves scalability, reliability and operational efficiency
• Driving observability, performance analysis and infrastructure optimisation
• Collaborating with engineering teams to solve complex infrastructure challenges at scale

Requirements:

• Strong Linux systems administration and infrastructure engineering experience
• HPC, DevOps, SRE or platform engineering background
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS, GCP and/or Azure)
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible or similar
• Python, Go or Bash scripting
• Docker, Kubernetes and modern container platforms
• Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, Ethernet)
• A passion for automation, systems performance and solving complex technical problems