Platform Engineer - Banking and Finance
Hamilton Barnes · hamilton-barnes.com
Cook CountyHybrid
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The job in short
Platform engineering in banking and finance.
PythonKubernetesTerraformLinuxBanking
Details
- Found
- 8 d ago · posted 2026-10-17
- Location as listed
- Cook County, Illinois, United States
- Role
- DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer
- Source
- The company’s own careers site
Full description
Do you want to join a global leader within the high frequency trading space?
Join a global proprietary trading firm operating at the intersection of trading, research, and high-performance technology. The organisation balances advanced modelling, engineering, and quantitative expertise to identify opportunities across global financial markets, trading a wide range of asset classes with its own capital. With over 30 years of innovation, the team combines the agility of a startup with the stability of an established firm, fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration, and continuous learning.
They are seeking a Platform Engineer to join a high-performance trading infrastructure team. Help deploy, scale, and observe mission-critical systems, making deployments faster, infrastructure more self-service, and system health more visible.
Apply now to be part of a high-performance environment where solving complex problems drives real impact across global markets!
Responsibilities:
• Automate deployment patterns across containerized and non-containerized workloads
• Build self-service infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible
• Drive CI/CD improvements and advocate modern software delivery practices
• Enhance monitoring and alerting to surface meaningful signals and support proactive capacity management
• Research and implement technologies to improve orchestration, workload management, and system visibility
• Learn and support in-house tools for infrastructure management in a hybrid working model.
Requirements:
• Experience supporting high-performance, mission-critical trading systems
• Strong Kubernetes experience (deployment, troubleshooting, optimization)
• Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Python, Ansible, Terraform
• Solid Linux systems knowledge
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software delivery best practices
Salary:
• Up to 250,000 total comp
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