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Senior Platform Engineer

Systematica Investments

Responsibilities

  • Use Ansible to support multi-stage deployment workflows, configuration management and repeatable operational procedures.
  • Build internal tooling, automation and self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead.

Primary Duties

  • Design, build, automate and operate the production platform across AWS and on-premises infrastructure.
  • Own, maintain and evolve the HashiCorp platform, including Vault, Consul, Nomad and associated integrations.
  • Use Terraform to define and manage infrastructure resources, configuration and reusable platform modules.
  • Support and enhance CI/CD platforms and engineering workflows, including the safe promotion of infrastructure and platform changes.
  • Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance and operational excellence.
  • Partner with software engineers, quantitative developers, research teams, Technology Operations and security colleagues to deliver secure, scalable and resilient platforms.

Education, Knowledge and Experience

  • At least five years’ experience in platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering or a closely related role.
  • Strong experience operating production or production-like infrastructure, ideally across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Hands-on experience with HashiCorp technologies, particularly Nomad, Consul and Vault.
  • Strong Linux systems administration and networking knowledge, including DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing, firewalls and certificate management.
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform.
  • Experience using Ansible, including playbooks, roles and inventories.
  • Experience building automation or operational tooling using Python, Go, Bash or a similar scripting language.
  • Experience with GitHub or similar source-control platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and infrastructure change management.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS, and Docker or other container runtimes.
  • Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki or Datadog.
  • Experience with artifact-management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory.
  • Knowledge of AWS Batch, AWS Step Functions, AWS Identity and Access Management and Karpenter would be advantageous.
  • Experience supporting hybrid-cloud platform migration or modernisation would be advantageous.
  • Experience designing secure platforms within regulated environments.
  • A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cyber Security or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Relevant certifications in HashiCorp technologies, cloud platforms, Linux, security, networking or DevOps would be advantageous.

Benefits

Systematica Investments provides an excellent range of benefits from day one, including private medical insurance for you and your immediate family. We offer a competitive salary, an attractive bonus and pension package, and complimentary drinks and snacks in the office. We also provide paid parental leave, with enhanced leave for mothers and primary carers.