Principal Platform Engineer – Compute and Storage Specialist

Sector:FinTech/Financial Services

Salary/Rate:£160,000-£180,000

Job type:Perm

Town/City:City of London

County:London

Job ref:SLLIO/72

Post Date:31. 08. 2024

Apply Now Create Job Alert

Scroll

Meet Our Recruiter

Craig Mullen

Director

0203 479 4931

craig@ncounter.co.uk

About the Role

Principal Platform Engineer – Compute and Storage Specialist

About the Role: We are partnering with a premier high-frequency trading firm provider in London to find a Principal Platform Engineer with a specialization in Compute and Storage. As a key player in the fintech space, this company processes vast amounts of data daily, empowering traders to monitor and manage commodities, securities, and investments in real-time and at scale. The ingestion pipelines leverage cutting-edge technology to deliver market-leading data insights and trading opportunities.

In this role, you will collaborate with a global team to design, build, and maintain compute and storage services that scale seamlessly with the company’s growth. Your expertise in Linux platforms, distributed storage systems, and performance optimization will be crucial in ensuring the efficiency and reliability of these systems. You will work across a range of environments, including bare metal, hypervisors, containers, and public cloud platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

Required Qualifications:

6+ years technology infrastructure expertise, particular focus on Linux administration. Expert config management experience: Chef or Ansible. Distributed storage systems knowledge and protocol know-how (NFS, GPFS, WEKA). Strong Python or other programming expertise (Golang, Rust welcome). CI/CD and expertise in observability/distributed systems (e.g., Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana). Cloud platforms familiarity, particularly AWS and GCP.

Expertise in designing, building, and maintaining scalable compute and storage solutions is the primary role here - contributing to the optimisation of performance and managing the capacity of distributed storage systems is the key goal. With key responsibilities involving the installation and configuration of hardware and software to ensure seamless integration with the existing infrastructure. You’ll need a keen eye for detail to enhance monitoring and alerting systems, improving observability and overall system health.

This role offers an exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of technology in the energy trading sector. You will play a critical role in shaping the infrastructure that powers real-time trading and data analysis at scale. If you are passionate about innovation, thrive in dynamic environments, and have the expertise to manage complex systems, we encourage you to apply.

Apply Now Create Job Alert

More jobs from this recruiter

View All

Platform Engineer – Observability

City of London

London

£140,000-£150,000

A leading trading platform provider in London, are looking for a Principal Platform Engineer with excellent an understanding of Python and architectural design principles to help reorganise their SRE and Observability function. Consuming huge amounts of data each day, this Fintech company allows traders to monitor their commodities, securities and investment at scale and in real-time. Ingestion pipelines are created using cutting edge technology producing market leading data insights and trading opportunities.

Platform Architect

City of London

London

£200,000-£220,000

A global investment management firm, known for their scientific approach to systematic and quantitative trading have engaged Ncounter, to help find them an ultra-low latent Platform expert. As a technology focused company, they are reliant on scientific research, compute farms and cutting-edge low-latent infrastructure to keep them at the forefront of the industry. As a Platform Architect, you will be engaged on HPC (High Performance Computing) projects, enterprise solutions and low latency platforms, based in the City of London (4-days p/w onsite). We are seeking someone who can be responsible for research, design, support (Level 3) and documentation for the infrastructure, whilst thriving in a collaborative environment, working synergistically with Network, Application Support, Application Development and Quant teams.

Principal Platform Engineer – Compute and Storage Specialist

City of London

London

£160,000-£180,000

We are partnering with a premier high-frequency trading firm provider in London to find a Principal Platform Engineer with a specialization in Compute and Storage. As a key player in the fintech space, this company processes vast amounts of data daily, empowering traders to monitor and manage commodities, securities, and investments in real-time and at scale. The ingestion pipelines leverage cutting-edge technology to deliver market-leading data insights and trading opportunities. In this role, you will collaborate with a global team to design, build, and maintain compute and storage services that scale seamlessly with the company’s growth. Your expertise in Linux platforms, distributed storage systems, and performance optimization will be crucial in ensuring the efficiency and reliability of these systems. You will work across a range of environments, including bare metal, hypervisors, containers, and public cloud platforms.

Application Support Analyst

Belfast

Antrim

£60,000

My client is looking for an accomplished Application Support Analyst to join a tight knit team of experts within a production team who service a global client and customer base. This business offers Financial Infrastructure as a service, harnessing Software-Defined Networking, Connectivity and a multitude of APIs to create market-leading environments. This high-performant and Low-latent platform help some of the world’s most successful financial institutions, access various markets including Crypto, Futures, FX, Rates, and Credit.