Radley James
Senior Production Engineer
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🚨 Senior Platform Engineer – London | Elite Trading Environment | £400k–£500k+ TC
I’m working on a high-impact Senior Platform Engineering role within a top-tier global trading firm. This is a chance to operate at the core of a mission-critical production environment, where infrastructure performance directly impacts trading outcomes.
This is a deep technical role focused on building and scaling the platforms that power a globally distributed, high-performance trading ecosystem.
🧠What you’ll be doing
- Designing and evolving core platform infrastructure supporting production trading systems
- Building internal tooling across observability, build systems, and infrastructure automation
- Managing and optimising Linux-based environments across global colocations
- Operating and scaling on-prem Kubernetes clusters and containerised workloads
- Partnering closely with engineering teams to debug complex, real-time production issues
- Driving improvements in system reliability, performance, and scalability across distributed systems
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⚙️ Tech environment
- Linux (deep systems-level exposure)
- Kubernetes / containerisation (on-prem)
- Observability stacks
- Languages: Python, Go (or similar)
- Distributed systems at scale
🎯 What they’re looking for
- Strong background in platform engineering, SRE, or production engineering
- Deep understanding of Linux systems, networking, and debugging at scale
- Experience building and operating complex distributed systems
- Comfortable owning problems end-to-end — from diagnosis through to resolution
- A mindset geared towards root cause analysis and continuous improvement
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đź’° Compensation:
- Base: £150k – £200k+
- Year 1 Total Comp: £300k – £500k+
🌍 Why this role stands out
- You’ll be working on infrastructure that is directly tied to trading performance
- Highly technical, engineering-led environment — minimal bureaucracy
- Significant ownership and autonomy from day one
- Comp structure that genuinely rewards impact and performance
This is well suited to engineers coming from high-scale tech, cloud infrastructure, or low-latency environments who want to step into a top-tier trading setup.
💬 If you’d be open to hearing more, feel free to message me directly or comment below.
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