Windows platform engineer in trading

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. As a member of our London-based Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team, this position supports our multi-tenant private and public cloud initiatives.

• The role contributes to the delivery of services to our core business areas globally, including Trading, middle and back office, and Technology.
• It involves system integration, support and continuous improvement, with an emphasis on standardisation, repeatability, automation and orchestration.
• The successful candidate will cover BAU rota activities alongside business project initiatives.
• You should be passionate about emerging technology trends, innovations and directions, and eager to suggest and implement new solutions to enhance our technology performance.
• Your commitment to continuous improvement should be evident, both in learning from others and sharing knowledge to enhance our team's capability and function.

• A minimum of 5 years of industry experience.
• Comprehensive platform engineering and support experience biased towards the Microsoft server technology portfolio, including On-premise bare metal hardware deployments (preferably HPE), Advanced virtualisation design, architecture and support across VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms, together with container technologies such as Kubernetes.
• This should also include enterprise integration experience with security, high availability, networking, load balancing aspects to deliver applications and infrastructure.
• Experience administering Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, Entra ID, Teams and SharePoint Online.
• Experience and proficiency in translating requirements through to providing and supporting solutions and environments for both proprietary and commercial software
• Platform engineering and support experience with public cloud platforms, preferably with a major Hyperscaler like Microsoft Azure or AWS.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code methodologies with On-Prem and Cloud IaaS, achieved through automation and orchestration of cross-platform services using tools such as Source Control, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform and ServiceNow.
• Demonstrable scripting or programming skills in languages such as PowerShell, Python and familiarity with APIs and data structures in JSON/YAML or similar.
• Experience with GenAI technologies via Public Cloud, OpenAI, AWS, etc.
• The ideal candidate is analytical and methodical, with a proven track record in problem-solving, critical BAU, advanced engineering and technology service delivery in a high-pressure, time-sensitive environment.
• You should also understand the need for rapid delivery while appreciating business risk and constraints to ensure adherence to service levels.
• The candidate should have experience working both independently and as part of a diverse team, meeting both broad and specific project/BAU objectives.
• This role requires excellent organisational skills, open communication, and a collaborative approach.
• Будет плюсом: Prior experience in a similar role within a Financial institution will be advantageous

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