One of our market leading quantitative trading firms is seeking a Junior Platform Specialist to join their trading team. This is a vital technical role that is instrumental in delivering platform infrastructure using DevOps methodology. You will also be responsible for designing, monitoring, and scaling private and public cloud infrastructure, and automating everyday tasks with scripting and configuration management tools.
This role is Junior and as such is applicable to candidates with between 2 and 4 years experience in DevOps. Less than 2 years experience will be considered in exceptional circumstances, where candidates have an outstanding study and internship record.
Required Qualifications:
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or similar discipline,
- Up to 4 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles,
- Experience with Python, git, Bash and Linux,
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills,
- Ability to work well in a fast-paced environment,
- Eagerness to continuously learn new technologies and develop with us.
Nice to have:
- Experience with modern software development tooling, such as Gitlab, Artifactory or Docker,
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management, such as Ansible and Terraform,
- Experience with HPC and orchestration technologies, such as Slurm or Kubernetes,
- Experience with Databases and Observability systems, such as Elasticsearch, Datadog, Prometheus, PostgreSQL.