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TradeAgent Senior Lead Platform Engineer

London, United KingdomFull-time2026-10-19 → 2026-11-09

Core

Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure for a new cloud-based critical market infrastructure service, acting as SRE for non-production environments.

Role type

Senior Lead Platform Engineer / SRE (Manager level)

Builds

Cloud-based trading platforms and critical market infrastructure services

Domain

Financial markets infrastructure / Cloud-native engineering

Required skills

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

Preferred skills

Anthos/GKE Enterprise on AWS, Experience in highly regulated financial industries, SRE for cloud-based trading solutions

Technologies

AWS, Terraform, GitLab, Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Ansible, Datadog, Coverity, Blackduck, Groovy, Bash, Python

Responsibilities

Design and maintain cloud infrastructure for trading platforms; Automate deployment pipelines for high availability and security; Track and improve platform running costs (FinOps); Enable product teams with deployment strategies; Mentor junior team members

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities