Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer | Hedge Fund | London | up to £300k TC You don't need a hedge fund background for this one. You need to know how to run Kubernetes at serious scale. I'm partnered with one of the leading funds in London and New York, and they're investing heavily in Platform Engineering and Developer Experience. This is a particularly strong opportunity for someone coming from a high-scale technology environment who wants to take on a bigger engineering challenge without needing finance on their CV. The team builds the platforms that enable engineers, researchers and investment teams to build, test, ship and run software at serious scale. You'll be working on large-scale, highly distributed infrastructure, solving the kinds of engineering problems that come with supporting a global technology organisation. The focus is on building reliable platforms, improving developer experience and making it easier for engineers to ship software at scale. You'll be running Kubernetes clusters, working at the infrastructure level and getting into low-level configuration, including technologies such as Istio. What you'll bring

• Strong experience in Platform Engineering, SRE or DevOps
• Hands-on experience running and managing Kubernetes clusters
• Comfortable working with Kubernetes at a low level, including configuration and troubleshooting
• Experience with Istio or service mesh technologies
• Strong software engineering skills, ideally with Python or Go
• Experience working with large-scale, distributed systems
• Strong Terraform / infrastructure-as-code experience
• Deep CI/CD and automation experience
• Experience operating production systems across cloud and on-prem Why consider it?
• No finance background required: your experience working with complex technology environments is what matters
• Massive scale: distributed infrastructure supporting thousands of engineers, applications and workloads
• Hands-on engineering: you're building, configuring and operating the underlying platform
• Serious Kubernetes work: cluster management, low-level configuration and service infrastructure
• Real ownership: build platforms that other engineers across the business rely on
• Platform Engineering & DevEx: significant investment in improving how engineers build and ship software If you're coming from a major tech company, large-scale SaaS business or another environment where you've had to operate Kubernetes and distributed infrastructure at scale, this could be a very interesting route into finance without needing finance experience. Drop me a message or email me at joshwa@pargaonalpha.com for more details or a confidential conversation.