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Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Python)

London, United Kingdom💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-30 → 2026-09-26

Core

Designing, building, and maintaining robust, resilient, and scalable infrastructure automation systems for algorithmic trading.

Role type

Lead Infrastructure Engineer (VP level)

Builds

Linux-based electronic trading infrastructure platform

Domain

Financial services / Algorithmic trading / Infrastructure automation

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Linux/Unix networking stack, OS customization, large-scale system architecture, infrastructure automation, Linux CLI debugging (tcpdump, strace), CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git), TDD, Go (preferred)

Preferred skills

Go programming language

Technologies

Python, Linux, Unix, Jenkins, Git, tcpdump, strace

Responsibilities

Design and implement new infrastructure solutions for algorithmic trading; Collaborate with development groups and SREs to reduce costs and manage technology risk; Act as subject matter expert for Linux-based trading infrastructure; Mentor and lead less experienced engineers; Provide technical leadership and vision for a team of engineers and SREs; Drive continuous improvement through SRE techniques like blameless post-mortems.

Seniority

VP level, hands-on IC with leadership

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