The Role
Design, build, automate and operate a hybrid production platform across AWS and on-premises. Own and evolve HashiCorp stack (Nomad, Consul, Vault), implement IaC with Terraform, use Ansible for deployments, build automation and self-service tooling, support CI/CD, and improve platform reliability, security and observability while partnering with engineering, research and security teams.
Summary Generated by Built In
This is a hands-on engineering role within the Platform Engineering team, which forms part of Technology Operations. Platform Engineering is responsible for building and operating the infrastructure, platforms and developer tooling that enable our engineering and quantitative research teams to deliver software reliably, securely and at scale.
The role will contribute to the design, build, automation and operation of a hybrid production platform across AWS and on-premises environments, with a particular focus on the HashiCorp platform, including Nomad, Consul and Vault. The successful candidate will treat infrastructure as software, promote automation-first practices and build reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, operational resilience and security.
The role requires strong judgement when making platform changes, including understanding the architecture, ensuring deployment prerequisites are met, carefully managing YAML and infrastructure configuration, and assessing the impact of maintenance and change activity across the wider platform.
The role will contribute to the design, build, automation and operation of a hybrid production platform across AWS and on-premises environments, with a particular focus on the HashiCorp platform, including Nomad, Consul and Vault. The successful candidate will treat infrastructure as software, promote automation-first practices and build reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, operational resilience and security.
The role requires strong judgement when making platform changes, including understanding the architecture, ensuring deployment prerequisites are met, carefully managing YAML and infrastructure configuration, and assessing the impact of maintenance and change activity across the wider platform.
Primary Duties
- Design, build, automate and operate the production platform across AWS and on-premises infrastructure.
- Own, maintain and evolve the HashiCorp platform, including Vault, Consul, Nomad and associated integrations.
- Use Terraform to define and manage infrastructure resources, configuration and reusable platform modules.
- Use Ansible to support multi-stage deployment workflows, configuration management and repeatable operational procedures.
- Build internal tooling, automation and self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead.
- Support and enhance CI/CD platforms and engineering workflows, including the safe promotion of infrastructure and platform changes.
- Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance and operational excellence.
- Partner with software engineers, quantitative developers, research teams, Technology Operations and security colleagues to deliver secure, scalable and resilient platforms.
Education, Knowledge and Experience
- At least five years’ experience in platform engineering, DevOps, site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering or a closely related role.
- Strong experience operating production or production-like infrastructure, ideally across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments.
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp technologies, particularly Nomad, Consul and Vault.
- Strong Linux systems administration and networking knowledge, including DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing, firewalls and certificate management.
- Strong infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform.
- Experience using Ansible, including playbooks, roles and inventories.
- Experience building automation or operational tooling using Python, Go, Bash or a similar scripting language.
- Experience with GitHub or similar source-control platforms, CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows and infrastructure change management.
- Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native infrastructure.
- Experience with Kubernetes, including Amazon EKS, and Docker or other container runtimes.
- Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki or Datadog.
- Experience with artifact-management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory.
- Knowledge of AWS Batch, AWS Step Functions, AWS Identity and Access Management and Karpenter would be advantageous.
- Experience supporting hybrid-cloud platform migration or modernisation would be advantageous.
- Experience designing secure platforms within regulated environments.
- A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Cyber Security or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Relevant certifications in HashiCorp technologies, cloud platforms, Linux, security, networking or DevOps would be advantageous.
Benefits
Systematica Investments provides an excellent range of benefits from day one, including private medical insurance for you and your immediate family. We offer a competitive salary, an attractive bonus and pension package, and complimentary drinks and snacks in the office. We also provide paid parental leave, with enhanced leave for mothers and primary carers.
About
Systematica Investments, launched in January 2015 after a decade of experience within BlueCrest Capital Management, is an innovative technology-driven firm focused on a quantitative and systematic approach to investing. The firm was founded by Leda Braga and manages assets across a number of futures, equity and OTC based strategies.The philosophy of the firm is one of innovation, excellence in research and a commitment to fostering a strong alignment with investors. Systematica Investments has a global presence with offices in Jersey, Geneva, London, New York, Singapore and Shanghai.
Skills Required
- Five or more years in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering or closely related role
- Operate production or production-like infrastructure across hybrid cloud and on-premises environments
- Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Nomad, Consul and Vault
- Infrastructure-as-code experience using Terraform
- Automation and configuration management experience using Ansible
- Strong Linux systems administration and networking knowledge (DNS, TLS, load balancing, routing, firewalls, certificate management)
- Experience building automation or operational tooling using Python, Go or Bash
- Good understanding of CI/CD, source control, deployment workflows and change management for infrastructure platforms
- Educated to degree level (Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent)
- Experience with Kubernetes / Amazon EKS
- Experience with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki) or Datadog
- Experience with artifact management (JFrog Artifactory) and container runtimes (Docker)
- Familiarity with AWS services such as AWS Batch, Step Functions, IAM and Karpenter
- Experience with hybrid cloud platform migration or modernisation
- Secure platform design experience in regulated environments
- Relevant practical certifications in HashiCorp, cloud, Linux, security, networking or DevOps
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Systematica Investments is a quantitative investment management firm focused on a systematic approach to investing, leveraging science and technology.
