about the role

Lead Infrastructure Engineer - London - up to £170k - Crypto trading firm

Cititec are working with a hyper-growth Crypto trading firm who are on the lookout for a Lead Infrastructure Engineer. Working with the most senior people in the business, you have to be very technically hands-on and have a specialism of working in a modern high frequency trading environment.

Responsibilities include:

• To both develop and lead a technical team which will be responsible to design, build and support their IT infrastructure
• To be accountable for team management of the global infrastructure team
• Making sure the companys infrastructure is compliant with best practice
• Report on the infrastructure performance, capacity and recommendations for architecture
• Resource planning, activities and task prioritisation

Experience required:

• Experience running low-latency infrastructure
• Proprietary trading or market-making experience is ideal
• Great understanding of cloud technologies
• Great experience with Infrastructure as Code and DevOps
• Knowledge of network services, relational and non-relational databases
• Experience automating CI/CD systems
• To have engineering experience with AWS, Linux, Docker, Python/Shell scripting
• Configuration management