Junior Platform Specialist

Squarepoint Capital
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
30 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Junior
Compensation
£ 55K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Bash
Configuration Management
Databases
Linux
DevOps
Elasticsearch
Python
PostgreSQL
Ansible
Prometheus
Datadog
Gitlab
GIT
Kubernetes
Information Technology
Slurm
Terraform
Docker
Artifactory

Job description

Platform Applications Specialists at Squarepoint play an important technical role in delivering mission-critical platform infrastructure using the DevOps methodology.

In this position, you will have the opportunity to work with internal and external stakeholders on building and maintaining automated platform solutions and services used across the firm. You will also be responsible for designing, monitoring, and platform infrastructure, and automating everyday tasks with scripting and configuration management tools.

Requirements

  • Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline,
  • Up to 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles,
  • Experience with Python, git, Bash and Linux,
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills,
  • Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment,
  • Eagerness to continuously learn new technologies and develop with us.

Nice to have:

  • Experience with modern software development tooling, such as Gitlab, Artifactory or Docker,
  • Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management, such as Ansible and Terraform,
  • Experience with HPC and orchestration technologies, such as Slurm or Kubernetes,
  • Experience with Databases and Observability systems, such as Elasticsearch, Datadog, Prometheus, PostgreSQL.

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