Platform Engineer

Job description

Junior (2-5yoe) Platform Engineer - London

As a Junior 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:

• 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
• Good Linux / network stack knowledge, as well as optimization/tuning

Nice to have:

• Containerization (Docker / Kubernetes) in a production environment
• Monitoring tools in a production environment (Prometheus / Grafana / ELK stack / Splunk)
• IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible etc)

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

London Area

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

04-02-2026

Profession type

Accountancy

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English