Durlston Partners
Software Engineer (Infrastructure Automation) - HFT Firm
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Software Engineer (Infrastructure Automation) - HFT Firm - London - £120,000 + bonus
I'm working with an elite proprietary trading firm hiring a Software Engineer (Infrastructure Automation) to automate the management of their bare-metal HFT estate end-to-end.
Long-established systematic trading firm with deep in-house technology
- Small, collaborative team - open codebase, real ownership, no corporate overhead
This is a hands-on building role. You'll own their bespoke in-house Linux provisioning platform and replace manual, repeatable work with reliable automation across the estate. No finance experience required.
What you'll be working on:
- Owning and extending a bespoke in-house Linux host provisioning platform (Python)
- Automating patching, secrets management, and OS lifecycle across the estate
- Bringing network and firewall config under version control via Git-based PR workflows
- Automating application build and release processes, plus a hardened base build for Windows
- Strengthening monitoring and alerting so problems surface before they bite
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What they're looking for:
- Strong, current professional Python - this is the language behind all their automation
- Deep, hands-on Linux systems administration with genuine OS-level understanding
- Track record automating infrastructure at scale - declarative, idempotent, version-controlled
- Solid networking fundamentals (VLANs, routing, firewalls) and secrets management experience (Vault or equivalent)
- Bare-metal provisioning and virtualisation familiarity; image-based OS approaches a strong plus
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What's on offer:
- Highly competitive salary + discretionary bonus
- Genuine end-to-end ownership of a substantial infrastructure estate
- Work alongside highly experienced engineers, traders, and quants in a small, high-trust team
- Strong benefits - private healthcare, contributory pension, generous leave
A rare chance to own and automate a real HFT infrastructure estate from the ground up - with the autonomy and technical depth to match.
If you are interested, please apply! Alternatively, feel free to reach out to david@durlstonpartners.com for a confidential discussion.
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