Infrastructure Engineer – London, UK (London Area)

GFO-X is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join our growing team in London, UK. GFO-X is the UK's first regulated and centrally cleared trading venue dedicated to digital asset derivatives. The successful candidate will join the Infrastructure team, report to the Head of Infrastructure, work with developers and project stakeholders, and build the infrastructure for an institutional grade fully UK-regulated trading venue for digital asset futures and options.

Role:

• Deployment and configuration of exchange infrastructure, including network and server hardware, Linux OS, database and other services, and the exchange applications.
• Deployment, configuration, and ongoing management of the exchange monitoring platforms.
• Support of the Trading Platform Support and Exchange Operations teams to assist in daily exchange operations and resolving operational issues.
• Working with the Security team to implement corporate security policies to ensure our IT environments adhere to internal and industry-standard policies and practices.
• Monitoring and improving the availability, resiliency, and performance of the exchange infrastructure.
• Monitoring platform capacity and identifying where we may have insufficient headroom.
• Contributing to out-of-hours market rehearsals and test sessions.
• Propose and lead projects that improve our test and production environments.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.
• Contribute to Exchange design and architecture discussions.
• Work shifts and on-call as may be required.

Requirements:

• At least 5 years of experience in administering and deploying Linux solutions in similar industries — ideally with experience in a high-frequency or market-making environment.
• Practical exposure to Ansible, Puppet, or similar configuration management tools.
• Experience with configuring and managing resilient, low-latency environments is particularly welcome.
• Experience in deployment and operations of virtualization platforms including ESXi and Proxmox.
• Demonstrable skills with orchestration and automation tools, including scripting languages such as Bash, and Python.
• Experience with configuring Zabbix or similar monitoring platforms.
• Experience with IPA or similar identity management platforms, including practical LDAP skills.
• Intermediate understanding of networking infrastructure and in particular, multicast and high throughput, low jitter networks.
• Hands-on experience with identifying and mitigating platform security issues and threats.
• Very strong problem-solving skills and a sense of ownership of their domain.
• Demonstrable continuous learning and acquisition of new skills.
• Self-starter and independent, able to work within a team. Detail-oriented with a structured approach to managing workload.
• Capable of interacting with different teams throughout the organization and with external clients to identify/resolve technical issues in a professional and effective manner.
• Ability to write clear, concise, and comprehensive documentation for processes and systems.
• Experience in proposing and evaluating new hardware and software solutions and their associated processes.
• Strong command of spoken and written English.

This role is to be based at our London office. Application from any region is acceptable, but candidates based in the United Kingdom will be given preference. GFO-X is an equal opportunities employer committed to diversity and inclusion. Competitive benefits included.

If you are interested in any of our roles, please apply through the link provided in the job posting. Inquiries from agencies should be directed to recruitment@gfo-x.com. Please refrain from sending recruitment inquiries to any other email address or individual within our organization. GFO-X does not guarantee employment or engagement based solely on inquiry. All unsolicited CVs from agencies shall be treated as such and will not be counted as submissions.