Senior Systems Engineer

Overview

Seeking a highly experienced and motivated Senior Systems Engineer with expertise in infrastructure automation, Terraform, and cloud platforms to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Linux administration, automation, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, ensuring scalability, security, and high availability across our environments.

This role will play a key part in building and maintaining automated infrastructure, driving operational efficiency, and supporting business-critical systems in a high-performance trading environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Design, implement, and maintain scalable infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and other automation tools.

• Automation & DevOps: Develop, enhance, and manage CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and configuration management.

• Cloud & On-Premise Systems: Support, optimise, and scale hybrid cloud environments (AWS/Azure) alongside on-premise data centres.

• Linux Systems Engineering: Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Linux-based infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance.

• Security & Compliance: Implement secure system architectures, aligning with ISO 27001 and other regulatory frameworks.

• Monitoring & Observability: Configure and maintain monitoring solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Zabbix) to ensure proactive issue resolution.

• Networking & Performance Optimisation: Work with networking teams to optimise connectivity, security, and system performance across multiple regions.

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide junior team members and share knowledge on best practices in infrastructure automation and security.

• Capacity Planning & Scaling: Ensure infrastructure can scale efficiently to meet growing business demands.

Key Requirements

✅ 5+ years of experience in systems engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.

✅ Strong proficiency in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.

✅ Experience with Linux administration, virtualisation (VMware, Proxmox), and storage management.

✅ Familiarity with SQL and No SQL databases.

✅ Hands-on experience with automation tools (Ansible).

✅ Proficiency in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) and hybrid-cloud deployments.

✅ Solid scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation tasks.

✅ Strong understanding of networking, firewalls, VPNs, and security principles.

✅ Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Zabbix).

✅ Familiarity with DevOps methodologies, CI/CD pipelines, SDLC

✅ Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).

Preferable ( not essential)

➕ Familiarity with Jenkins, ArgoCD, for CI/CD.

➕ Financial services or high-performance trading infrastructure experience.

➕ Exposure to multi-region, geo-distributed infrastructure deployments