Platform Engineer

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:

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)

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