Platform Engineer (Kubernetes on-premises)

Platform Engineer

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

Maven is a marketleading proprietary trading firm that allocates internal capital across discretionary systematic and marketmaking strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders engineers and technologists unified by an unwavering dedication to enhancing our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives. We leverage groundbreaking execution and pricing technologies to elevate and improve financial markets operations.

OVERVIEW

As a global firm with trading strategies that operate worldwide we want to create and maintain a globally consistent platform removing as much work as possible from our trading and development teams when building developing and running their applications. We are looking for an experienced technical operations specialist DevOps engineer or Platform Engineer to join a small existing team and help shape this vision.

The individual will have operational responsibility for several production trading and research environments and will need to understand how our systems work throughout the trading lifecycle from the front to the back office. The role will require close collaboration with traders developers quant researchers data engineers and infrastructure teams to ensure our production systems are wellunderstood and properly configured. The individual will also be expected to advocate for operational efficiency and continuous improvement across all deployment aspects as well as troubleshooting monitoring automation and resiliency.

We are just at the beginning of an exciting transformation project to consolidate and standardise how we run and research our applications inside Maven and the individual will have the opportunity to shape the future of this platform

The role is based in London but the team will be globally distributed. Communication skills a pragmatic approach to problemsolving under time pressure and a positive mindset are essential for success in this role. Candidates will likely have at least 2 years of experience in a similar position. In particular we are looking for:

• a highly motivated individual with creative problemsolving skills;
• a selfstarter attitude and proactive problem ownership mindset;
• Ability to prioritise effectively whilst keeping longerterm objectives in mind;

This is an opportunity for someone who wants to have a meaningful impact within Maven to help define and shape a role that uniquely interfaces with all other functions within the firm.

MUST HAVE

• Building systems with a constant focus on reliability scalability and maintainability.
• Designing and programming in a variety of languages and technologies.
• Working on legacy code as well as green field development.
• Initiative driving projects to completion.
• Learning and promoting new technologies with a focus on best practices.
• Experience building and automating various operations tasks using scripting languages such as Python including configuration checks system health monitoring alerting reliability report generation etc.
• Demonstrated ability to adapt to steep learning curves and navigate large volumes of information

NICE TO HAVE

• Multiple years of serverside development.
• Exposure to Kubernetes Docker Linux Kafka Prometheus and other modern deployment tooling
• Experience working closely with both traders and automated strategies in a similar frontoffice environment to identify and implement operational improvements
• Knowledge of standard IT and software engineering tooling such as git jira TeamCity confluence ansible etc.
• Familiarity with SQL HTTP messaging and network protocols
• Experience managing operational risk in a trading environment

WHY SHOULD YOU APPLY

• An excellent engineering environment where technology is key to our success
• Flexible workfromhome options 1 day a week
• Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Working with a team of highperforming individuals we all push each other forward
• Informal dress code and excellent work/life balance
• A fastgrowing global firm with plenty of opportunities where you will have a significant impact