Junior System Engineer: £80k + Bonus/benefits (High Frequency Trading)

I’m working with a fast-growing technology-driven trading firm looking to hire a Junior Platform Engineer to support a globally distributed, high-performance infrastructure environment powering real-time data and trading operations.

This is an opportunity to join a highly technical team working across multi-cloud infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, automation, and platform reliability within a fast-paced environment.

What you’ll be working on:

Supporting a 24x7 global infrastructure environment across cloud and on-prem systems

Improving platform performance, automation, and operational processes

Working closely with development and infrastructure teams on architecture and scalability

Managing infrastructure across multi-region / multi-cloud environments

Linux and network stack optimisation, tuning, and production support

Contributing to automation and reducing manual operational overhead

2+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Infrastructure Engineering

Strong AWS and networking experience in production environments

Linux systems administration and troubleshooting expertise

Scripting or coding experience with Bash, Python, Java, C#, Rust, or VBA

Understanding of infrastructure performance tuning and reliability engineering

Nice to have:

Docker / Kubernetes

Terraform / Ansible

Monitoring & observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk)

Salary: £80,000 + Bonus