DevOps / Platform Engineer - Financial ServicesOverview An opportunity to work within the Front Office Platform team for this global financial services organisation. You will deliver technology solutions to Quantitative Development teams who partner with portfolio managers / trading teams providing technology and data-analysis consultancy and development. You should offer a minimum of 5-10 years’ exp. as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or SRE that has worked on advanced systems extensively within other Investment Banks, Hedge Funds / Asset Managers, Financial Services or organisations with high performance platforms such as Energy firms or Media companies with Programmatic Trading. You will be involved in the build out of key platform features for Front Office; contribute to a modern, automated, cloud native continuous delivered stack; collaborate closely with quant development teams on the requirements for strategic internal products; Improve the security, reliability and cost efficiency of the Front Office platform and infrastructure; Automate as much as possible when appropriate; understand the nuances and challenges of developer experience for internal developer platforms.You should have a strong Platform Design & Architecture experienceExpertise Required:AWS Expertise with experience of working with CICD technologies plus an with an understanding of different deployment units – servers, containers, serverless.Background from an Investment Bank, Hedge Funds / Asset Managers, Financial Services or organisations with high performance platforms such as Energy firms or Media companies with Programmatic Trading. Must be strong on the design / architecture side of platforms as opposed to being predominantly Ops focussed.Cloud experience of AWS plus GCP or AzureAutomation scriptingHighly proficient LinuxBroad database knowledgeKubernetes, Docker, Serverless Framework, AWS SAMGitHub Actions, Argo CDPythonPackerPostgreSQLKnowledge of Distributed computing and accelerator (ray/dask/jax...) QualificationsWe require individuals with strong Platform Design & Architecture experienceRequired SkillsMinimum of 5-10 years’ experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or SREPay range and compensation package Salary c£100K (negotiable) plus Bonus and full benefits package