Platform Engineer

ThomsonKeene
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
24 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 120K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Algorithmic Trading
Unix
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Kubernetes

Job description

Our client, a leading Investment Bank, is looking for a Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team that supports algorithmic trading capabilities.

This is a role with a wide range of responsibilities, in a small, collaborative environment, where you will:

  • Design, deploy, and manage K8s clusters across various datacentres, ensuring the availability, reliability, observability, and security of the environment
  • Contribute to automation, CI/CD workflows, and infrastructure-as-code practices
  • Work closely with development, infrastructure, and trading teams to optimise platform performance

Requirements

  • Strong foundation in Unix infrastructure
  • Demonstrable experience in Kubernetes administration and best-practices.
  • Accustomed to DevOps approach and working in an environment protected by PAM.

Benefits & conditions

City of London - £80k - £120k per annum + +bonus, +excellent benefits Full Time Posted by: ThomsonKeene Posted: Wednesday, 3 December 2025 Applicants must be eligible to work in the specified location

Have you built private cloud infrastructure from scratch and looking for a new challenge?

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