Platform Automation Engineer

Overview

In this role you will advance automation and DevOps for a high-profile, mission-critical trading platform. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to reduce build and test times, strengthen CI/CD pipelines, and streamline deployment and release processes. The position offers a supportive, open culture in Central London with opportunities to learn through tech talks and hackathons. You’ll shape scalable automation that underpins a highly available product, while collaborating with top technologists.

Pay / Benefits

• bonus up to ~20%
• excellent benefits
• work-life balance
• regular social events
• tech talks and hackathons
• central London location

Responsibilities

• Support development teams with automation systems
• Deliver new features and improve platform availability
• Reduce build times and automated test times
• Own daily CI/CD pipeline operations
• Eliminate release costs
• Ensure scaling of source control for large teams
• Own the product deployment process
• Participate in knowledge-sharing sessions across the company

Key requirements

• Experience in mission-critical Managed Service environments
• Strong Windows automation and deployment techniques
• DevOps experience
• Excellent understanding of CI/CD systems and pipelines
• PowerShell scripting for Windows; VMware management; other languages like Python considered
• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible)
• Experience with log management (Splunk or ELK)
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, Google)

• collaboration
• proactive learning attitude
• strong problem-solving orientation
• Windows automation
• PowerShell
• VMware

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