Senior Infrastructure Engineer – Trading Technology

Overview

In this senior leadership role, you own the infrastructure strategy and delivery for a low-latency trading platform across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments. You will drive a major AWS migration, build greenfield trading and research environments, and modernise legacy systems to support scale and reliability. You’ll lead a senior infra/DevOps function with autonomy, collaborating with engineering, trading, and risk teams to shape the long-term engineering roadmap. Your work directly impacts platform performance, security, and global availability in a fast-paced market-making business.

Responsibilities

• Own infrastructure architecture across cloud, on-prem and hybrid platforms
• Lead end-to-end AWS migration and modernisation strategy
• Build greenfield environments for trading and research workloads
• Design and operate highly available, low-latency global infrastructure
• Take ownership of Microsoft services, Active Directory and core networking
• Engineer secure connectivity across firewalls, routing and multi-site links
• Drive network security, segmentation and access control strategy
• Lead and grow a high-performing infrastructure/DevOps team
• Partner closely with engineering, trading and risk functions
• Automate provisioning and deployment with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform/Ansible)
• Scale monitoring, cost optimisation and system reliability in production

Key requirements

• 7+ years in infrastructure within trading, market-making or high-performance engineering environments
• Leadership skills
• Strong AWS architecture and hybrid (cloud + on-prem) experience
• Deep networking background: routing, switching, low-latency connectivity
• Strong understanding of reliability engineering and autoscaling systems
• Prior experience building and scaling teams in high-performing environments
• Confident interacting with technical and trading leadership

• leadership
• cross-functional collaboration
• communication with technical and trading leadership
• AWS (VPC, IAM, S3, ECS/EKS, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, CloudFormation)
• Networking: BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VLANs, VPNs, SD-WAN
• Firewalls and network security (Cisco ASA, Fortinet or similar)

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