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TradeAgent Senior Lead Platform Engineer

London, England, GBFull-time2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10

Core

Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure for cloud-based trading platforms, acting as SRE for non-production environments and guiding product teams on deployment strategies.

Role type

Senior Lead Platform Engineer (Manager level)

Builds

Cloud-based critical market infrastructure services for trading platforms

Domain

Financial services / Cloud infrastructure

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

CI/CD methodologies, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker, Helm), Configuration management (Ansible), Scripting (Groovy, Bash, Python), Monitoring (Datadog), Security tools (Coverity, Blackduck), Scaled Agile delivery, Mentoring

Preferred skills

Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS, Securing cloud-native applications, Experience in highly regulated financial industries

Technologies

Terraform, Gitlab, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Ansible, Datadog, Coverity, Blackduck, Groovy, Bash, Python, AWS, Anthos, GKE Enterprise

Responsibilities

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure for trading platforms; Automate deployment of cloud resources; Track and improve platform running costs; Enable product teams with deployment pipelines; Mentor junior team members; Support complex application stacks across multiple cloud environments.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with Manager-level leadership responsibilities