Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lead Infrastructure Engineer/Solutions Architect

Fulltime/permanent role

Chiswick, West London (2 days onsite every week)

Technical Responsibilities

1. Infrastructure Design and Architecture: Lead the design, architecture and implementation ofascalable, secure, reliable low latency trading infrastructureusingAWS cloud infrastructure.
   • MUST HAVE: Hands-on experience designing and implementing AWS cloud solutions at scale inc. Kafka or similar data streaming components.

1. Technical Implementation and Configuration: Hands-on implementation, configuration and management of infrastructure components (networking, cloud services, internal/external data sources and storage, containerisation).
   • MUST HAVE: AWS, VPN, VPC Peering, EC2, S3, Lambda, Aurora, Docker/Kubernetes.

1. AWS Cloud Management and Optimisation: Manageandoptimize cloud-based infrastructureonAWS, ensuring security,scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
   • MUST HAVE: Apache Airflow, AWS networking concepts such as VPN, VPC peering, subnets, security groups, NAT gateways and how to implement scalable and fault tolerant network architectures. AWS Backup and S3 versioning for business continuity.
2. Monitoring and Logging: Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions.
   • MUST HAVE: AWS CloudWatch or equivalent to ensure high availability and performance of applications and services.
3. Best practices: Implements best practices such as Behaviour Driven Development (BDD), Test Driven Development (TDD) and continuous performance testing using open-source toolsets.

Role Must Haves (In Order)

1. High levels of personal drive and personal accountability. Holds themself accountable to their work, ensuring it is completed accurately and on time, takes pride in their output.
2. Genuinely enjoys the work in front of them. Have a passion for building pragmatic technology solutions that focus on delivering the most value over time.
3. Works without ego or a need for status and recognition. Critical feedback becomes fuel for growth.
4. Work in service of the team around them (servant leadership mindset), going above and beyond to support their team. Work collaboratively with high levels of self-motivation and caring personally for the team and co-workers; fosters psychological safety, clarity of purpose.
5. Have strong hands-on experience in designing and building low-latency trading or comparable infrastructures and related operational/trading processes.
6. Have a deep understanding of working methods such as Agile, Kanban, Scrum, DevOps and CI/CD tools and best practices and successful experience in embedding them in teams.
7. Strong self-management such as self-awareness, adaptability, positivity, self-motivation, holding yourself and team to high standards.
8. Positive reaction to failure, calm and comfortable in chaos and under pressure while retaining importantly strong ethical standards.
9. Personal commitment to excellence; to self-development, personal growth, expanding your comfort zone; strong attention to detail, ability and hunger to learn quickly; all of which is balanced with a strong sense of pragmatism.
10. Strong logical reasoning/critical thinking with an ability to make decisions, take a methodical approach, identify patterns to form conclusions and solve problems and ability to hold conflicting views in parallel.
11. Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with an ability to liaise with co-workers at all levels of the business, communicates delivery timelines for work clearly to stakeholders. Specifically skilled at presenting complex information in concise and clear ways, applying the appropriate sense of urgency when required.
12. Effective active listener. Holds space for other's ideas, avoids listening purely to respond; listens without ego getting in the way.

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