Senior Platform Engineer AWS - FinTech
Hybrid
London, United Kingdom
£ 100,000 / year
Full Time
07-04-2025
Job Specifications
Senior Platform Engineer (AWS IaC) London / WFH to £100k+
Are you a senior Platform Engineer looking for an opportunity to work with a modern tech stack with no legacy code where you can make an impact and progress your career in a leadership role whilst remaining hands-on?
You could be joining a growing, global, FinTech services company that has seen 30-40% year on year growth for the past 10 years and has ambitious growth plans.
As the Senior Platform Engineer you'll remain hands-on 90% of the time whilst also providing technical strategy and direction to a small team of senior Platform Engineers. You'll take a lead role in architecting and developing cloud-native services on AWS, instilling best practices and providing expertise on AWS.
This is an impactful role where you'll collaborate with Quant and Tech teams as well as the wider business to design and implement the infrastructure to support quantitative trading and data analysis, parallelising complex simulations to drive improvements whilst optimising for cost and efficiency. You'll ensure the platform meets security standards including OWASP Top 10 and ISO 27001 compliance, collaborating with IT, legal and compliance teams.
Location / WFH:
You'll join the team in Central London three days a week with flexibility to work from home the other two days.
About you:
You are a Platform Engineer from a software engineering background (Rust or Python preferred)
You have expertise with AWS
You have experience of architecting, designing and implementing high frequency platforms
You have a strong knowledge of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as AWS CDK, Terraform or CloudFormation
You have experience of working on event driven microservices
You're collaborative and pragmatic, with some previous coaching / mentoring experience
You are degree educated in Computer Science or similar
What's in it for you:
As a Senior Platform Engineer you will earn a competitive salary (to £80k) plus bonus and benefits package including:
Private Medical Healthcare including Dental and Vision cover
Pension
Share Option scheme
Employee Wellness Programme
Summer time hours
£2k personalised training budget
Apply now to find out more about this Senior Platform Engineer (AWS IaC) opportunity.
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