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Platform Engineer in UK

  • Akuna Capital
  • Full time
  • Email
  • London

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement cloud solutions across hybrid-cloud environments.
  • Improve cloud governance, security, operating models, and infrastructure efficiency.
  • Provision, configure, upgrade, and monitor Kubernetes, Spark, Kafka, and distributed database technologies.
  • Automate infrastructure management and development pipelines using Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, and GitLab.
  • Monitor systems, clusters, and cloud deployments for errors and performance issues.
  • Lead technical initiatives, influence architectural decisions, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related infrastructure roles.
  • Deep production experience deploying, operating, and scaling Kubernetes, including on-premise clusters and Amazon EKS.
  • Strong expertise designing and managing AWS cloud infrastructure; GCP experience is preferred.
  • Advanced Terraform and infrastructure-as-code experience, including reusable modules, state management, and platform automation.
  • Experience building and operating highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native platforms.
  • Strong knowledge of observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational troubleshooting.
  • Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
  • Strong Linux systems administration and distributed-production troubleshooting skills.
  • Proficiency with Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages.
  • Experience with Amazon RDS, Aurora, Redshift, and DynamoDB.
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification is preferred.
  • Ability to lead technical initiatives, influence architecture, mentor engineers, and collaborate across teams.
  • Ability to respond quickly and accurately to changing market conditions and solve math and coding problems.

Akuna Capital

Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm and options market maker that builds low-latency systems and quantitative strategies to provide liquidity in futures and options markets. The firm trades solely with its own capital—no external clients or investors—and earns from market-making and arbit...

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