Department Overview:
Our Technology Infrastructure team operates globally and is responsible for every aspect of the firm's hybrid platform. This ranges from our EUC/Office environments to Trading and Core service Co-Location Data Centres, and extends to Public Cloud, delivering top-tier technology services to a dynamic and demanding Trading organisation.
In addition to meeting the round-the-clock operational demands of the platforms, we continuously evolve and transform our platforms to maintain a competitive edge that our business requires. We innovate to provide valuable solutions and leverage our skilled Technology teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements.
Role Overview:
The Platform Engineer, Network Services focus will be responsible for managing, supporting, and enhancing BlueCrest’s global network infrastructure, including data networks, telecommunications, network security, advanced IP services, and unified communications.
This role sits within the Infrastructure Platform team and offers opportunities to work across other core platforms, including Linux, Storage, Windows and Hypervisors. As a result, a broad range of experience and a strong understanding of how wider technology infrastructure platforms integrate and co-exist would be beneficial. In particular, solid Unix operating system knowledge and operational experience would be an advantage.
Additionally, we are looking for engineers who bring the experience and mindset needed to help us adopt modern technology practices, including Infrastructure as Code, AI-enabled operations, automation-led delivery, and SRE practices. As we continue to grow our hybrid networking capabilities across on-premise/colocation, Azure and AWS, we are seeking expertise in designing, building, and supporting robust, deterministic cloud network environments.
Key Responsibilities:
Experience and Skills required:
An experienced network engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a financial institution/ fast-paced environment
Essential Skills
Desirable Skills
About You:
The ideal candidate will be joining a progressive and collaborative working environment that promotes teamwork, technical excellence, and innovative solutions. This role is particularly suitable for a team player who is highly motivated and thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced and demanding trading environment. We are seeking someone who can work autonomously, efficiently and methodically under pressure, multi-tasking and adapting quickly to learn new skills. An experienced platform engineer with networks focus and a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a financial institution or within a fast- paced dynamic environment would be a suitable fit for this role. This role may require flexible working hours to implement changes out of business hours in all regions (US/EMEA/APAC) and respond to P1 issue callout. The selected candidate will have access to the latest technology, opportunities to grow professionally and technically, as well as supporting training resources available to them.
BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.