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Senior SRE / Platform Engineer – Global Prime Brokerage & Financing Platform
eFinancialCareers · London
Job description
About the role
We are looking for a senior Site Reliability Engineer / Platform Engineer to join a fast‑growing global prime brokerage and financing platform. You will work on large‑scale distributed systems, driving automation, reliability and performance across both traditional and digital asset services.
Key responsibilities
- Automate infrastructure and operational workflows using IaC tools such as Terraform and AWS CDK.
- Design, build and optimise CI/CD pipelines with Amazon CodeBuild, GitHub Actions and Terraform Enterprise.
- Implement and maintain observability solutions, including real‑time monitoring with Datadog and AWS CloudWatch.
- Ensure high availability and performance of relational (PostgreSQL) and time‑series (QuestDB) databases, covering replication, failover and query optimisation.
Required profile
- Extensive hands‑on experience with a broad range of AWS services in a highly available environment.
- Strong Python programming and automation skills.
- Proven experience with event‑streaming platforms such as Kafka or Kinesis.
- Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, fault tolerance, disaster recovery and performance tuning.
- Solid background in incident management, root‑cause analysis and reliability improvement.
Required skills
- AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, RDS, Lambda, MWAA, API Gateway, Route53, SSM, EFS, Backup, DynamoDB, CloudFront, VPC, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeArtifact, Config, ElastiCache)
- Terraform
- AWS CDK
- Python
- Kafka / Kinesis
- Datadog, ELK, CloudWatch
- PostgreSQL, QuestDB
- CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions
What we offer
- Opportunity to build and scale mission‑critical systems that power global financial markets.
- Technology‑driven culture focused on automation, performance and reliability.
- Access to cutting‑edge AWS, SRE and observability tools.
- Chance to shape the future of financial technology in a fast‑moving environment.
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