Systems Engineer (Compute) - Systematic Trading - (London/Relocation available)
£150,000 + bonus & benefits |
The opportunity
A leading global systematic investment firm is looking for an experienced platform engineer to join its core compute team. The firm runs high-performance, data-intensive workloads across regions, and this team builds the infrastructure underneath them. You'll architect and evolve the compute platform, working closely with engineering teams worldwide.
Why consider it?
- Hands-on engineering: you write production code and build internal tooling and APIs, not just run tickets.
- Real scale: large, global, performance-critical compute supporting research and trading.
- Influence: you help set best practice and mentor junior engineers.
- Automation-first culture: incidents lead to architectural fixes, not just firefighting.
- Unlimited tech budgets! Tech is an asset, not a cost
What you'll be doing
- Architecting and evolving scalable compute platforms using modern infrastructure engineering practices
- Building automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management and lifecycle operations
- Developing internal tooling and APIs that hide infrastructure complexity and boost productivity
- Driving observability with telemetry pipelines for metrics, logs and traces
- Taking part in bulk server provisioning, including working with remote hands
- Partnering with software engineers on scalability, reliability and security
- Joining on-call and incident response, and turning postmortems into long-term improvements
What we're looking for
- Configuration management (Ansible, Chef or SaltStack)
- Python, Go or Rust for infrastructure tooling
- Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform or Pulumi)
- Cloud experience (AWS, GCP or Azure) across compute, storage, networking and IAM
- Monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, Zabbix) plus logging and tracing (ELK, Fluentd, OpenTelemetry, Jaeger)
- Identity and access management (LDAP, Kerberos, OAuth2)
- Git workflows, test-driven infrastructure and a DevOps mindset
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or similar
Systems Engineer (Compute): £150,000 + Bonus (Fintech) in London employer: Hunter Bond
Join our leading bank, where we prioritise employee growth and a collaborative work culture. As a KYC CLM AVP in London, you'll benefit from flexible working options and the chance to lead a dynamic team in a high-growth area, driving meaningful improvements in client experience and operational efficiency. We are committed to fostering an environment that encourages innovation and professional development, making us an excellent employer for those seeking a rewarding career in banking.
