Platform Architect

Sector:FinTech/Financial Services

Salary/Rate:£200,000-£220,000

Job type:Perm

Town/City:City of London

County:London

Job ref:LP45ljULL

Post Date:07. 09. 2024

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Meet Our Recruiter

Craig Mullen

Director

0203 479 4931

craig@ncounter.co.uk

About the Role

Platform Architect

A global investment management firm, known for their scientific approach to systematic and quantitative trading have engaged Ncounter, to help find them an ultra-low latent Platform expert. As a technology focused company, they are reliant on scientific research, compute farms and cutting-edge low-latent infrastructure to keep them at the forefront of the industry. As a Platform Architect, you will be engaged on HPC (High Performance Computing) projects, enterprise solutions and low latency platforms, based in the City of London (4-days p/w onsite).

We are seeking someone who can be responsible for research, design, support (Level 3) and documentation for the infrastructure, whilst thriving in a collaborative environment, working synergistically with Network, Application Support, Application Development and Quant teams.

Required Qualifications:

Computer Science degree with 10+ years’ experience operations, systems engineering and systems performance expertise.

Demonstrable enterprise experience with Linux; RHEL, Rocky, CentOS or OEL preferred).

Low latent network interfaces experience.

Kernel bypass knowledge and ideally Solarflare/Onload preferred.

Fixed Income, CDS, Corporate bonds, IRS and treasuries.

Background creating reporting and reconciliation applications.

Expertise with FPGA, Ansible, Chef, Terraform and Python a plus.

This person will be instrumental in designing, developing, and testing the infrastructure, ensuring the seamless integration and global reusability of software components. The role extends to collaborating with technology operations, providing expert 1st and 2nd level application support. A deep understanding of trading, booking, and position keeping is essential, along with experience in scalable and high-availability architectures will be advantageous.

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