Platform Engineer

Huxley UK

London, UK

24 days ago

Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Experienced

Experience required

2 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.totaljobs.com

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Amazon Web Services Bash Shell C Sharp (Programming Language) Protocol Stack Web Scraping Linux DevOps Monitoring of Systems Python (Programming Language) Network Diagnostics Performance Tuning

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Ansible Prometheus Server Virtualization Software Engineering Rust (Programming Language) Scripting Computer Networking Systems Grafana Multi-Cloud Containerization Kubernetes Information Technology Vba Programming Language Terraform Splunk Docker Elk Stack

Job description

Leading Crypto Trading Client requires a Platform Engineer with Web Scraping, Python and networking tools and Linux. All rounder position will look after Network Virtual Servers, self starter, must be able to communicate with senior stakeholders:

As a Platform Engineer, you will:
Act as infrastructure SME for a 24x7x365 globally distributed ethical web scraping function, supporting a multi region high frequency crypto trading operation
Be able to proactively analyze, drive, and own, performance and process improvements along all parts of the chain
Collaborate closely with development team in terms of architecture/prioritization
Liaise closely and collaboratively with central infrastructure team, in terms of common infrastructure/improving standards across the estate
Work effectively in a global multi-cloud set up, in terms of initiating/managing relationships, evaluation/onboarding of new providers, and improving internal processes in line with best-of-breed industry practices
Be a Linux/network stack expert and utilise that knowledge in the context of tuning/optimization and production support
Support the platform during business hours, and out-of-hours as part of a rota, and proactively chase ways to reduce/design out manual support overhead Required skillset You should get in touch if you have

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a STEM subject from a recognised university
Minimum 2 years of solid working experience in an infrastructure, DevOps, or Platform engineer role
Production experience in a global cloud environment. Demonstrable AWS and strong networking experience in a multi-region and/or multi-cloud set up is essential.
Demonstrable basic development or scripting experience in one or more of the following languages: Bash, Python, Java, C#, Rust, Excel VBA
Strong Linux / network stack knowledge, as well as optimization/tuning Nice to haves
Containerization (Docker / Kubernetes) in a production environment
Monitoring tools in a production environment (Prometheus / Grafana / ELK stack / Splunk)
IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible etc)