Five Sigma Finance
Platform Engineer
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Five Sigma helps investors, originators and asset owners execute, monitor and scale private-credit and asset-backed-finance transactions through specialist advisory services and ABIDE, its proprietary asset-management platform.
Our technology is central to our success. We are continually investing in our engineering capabilities to build scalable, secure, and resilient solutions that enable our clients to manage complex financial assets with confidence.
The Role
We're looking for a DevOps / Platform Engineer to join our growing Engineering team in London.
You'll become part of a collaborative team of eight Software Engineers responsible for the continued evolution of ABIDE—our flagship platform used by leading financial institutions.
Our technology stack includes:
- Backend: Python, Django, PostgreSQL
- Frontend: TypeScript, React, Next.js
- Cloud: Microsoft Azure
- CI/CD & Infrastructure
This role will play a pivotal part in designing, building and maintaining our cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines and engineering tooling. You'll help shape our DevOps strategy, improve developer productivity and ensure our applications are deployed securely, reliably and efficiently.
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Alongside platform engineering responsibilities, you'll also have the opportunity to contribute to backend development where appropriate, particularly around automation and infrastructure-related Python development.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys ownership, solving technical challenges and influencing how engineering teams deliver software at scale.
Key Accountabilities:
- Design, implement and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
- Build, automate and manage cloud infrastructure primarily within Microsoft Azure.
- Improve deployment processes, release automation and engineering workflows.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions to ensure scalable and repeatable environments.
- Monitor application performance, reliability and system health across development and production environments.
- Implement security best practices throughout the deployment lifecycle.
- Collaborate closely with Software Engineers to improve development workflows and platform capabilities.
- Support containerisation and orchestration technologies where appropriate.
- Troubleshoot production issues and implement long-term improvements to platform stability.
- Contribute to backend development tasks, particularly Python-based automation and infrastructure tooling.
- Continuously identify opportunities to improve platform performance, scalability and operational efficiency.
- Document infrastructure, deployment processes and technical standards.
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Candidate Requirements:
- 3-5 years’ experience as a DevOps, Software and/or Platform Engineer.
- Strong working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline design.
- Proven track record of using and deploying cloud services within Azure (Ideally) or within AWS/GCP.
- Experience working with APIs and webapps.
- Python Automation experience, development experience is a nice to have but not a must-have requirement.
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Work well with ambiguity and keen to take
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