Posted 16 days ago
Description
London | Hedge Fund | Permanent
The Client
Tempest Vane Partners has partnered with a globally recognised investment management business seeking an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join a high-calibre platform engineering team in London.
The Role
This opportunity sits within a technology-driven organisation where engineering is fundamental to business performance. The successful candidate will work on highly scalable infrastructure supporting large-scale research, analytics, and trading environments across an international platform.
The position offers significant exposure to modern cloud-native engineering, distributed systems, automation, and platform reliability initiatives within a fast-moving and technically sophisticated environment.
The Opportunity
The incoming engineer will play a key role in the design, improvement, and automation of critical infrastructure systems across both cloud and on-premise environments.
Working closely with infrastructure, development, and platform teams, the role will focus heavily on scalability, resilience, observability, and operational efficiency.
Core responsibilities will include:
- Engineering and maintaining enterprise-scale Kubernetes environments
- Supporting the evolution toward cloud-native and distributed architectures
- Driving automation initiatives across infrastructure and operational workflows
- Developing and promoting Infrastructure-as-Code best practices
- Enhancing platform stability, availability, and system performance
- Contributing to monitoring, observability, and incident response capabilities
- Partnering with global engineering teams on platform improvements and technical delivery
Candidate Requirements
Successful candidates are likely to demonstrate experience across several of the following areas:
- Strong scripting or software engineering capability using Python, Golang, Bash, or similar
- Deep understanding of Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or equivalent automation tooling
- Knowledge of hybrid infrastructure and distributed systems environments
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Jaeger
- Exposure to data streaming or workflow technologies including Kafka or Airflow
- Strong troubleshooting capability with a focus on automation and reliability engineering
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