Platform Engineer

• You are a skilled engineer, passionate about development and platform reliability

• We are a team of big thinkers who are engineering the future of banking

• Together we will build tomorrow’s bank today, using world-leading engineering technology and innovation

Do work that matters

As a Platform Engineer, you will be contributing to the on-going support and extension of the ION platform, using your technical skills and business knowledge to solve real problems to maintain our leading market trading position.  You will be conceiving and driving process improvements that add significant business value. You will also be invited to join our regular engineering guilds, both local and global, to engage in knowledge sharing and learning more world-class skills, techniques, and processes.

See yourself in our team

You will be part of the eFIR (Electronic Fixed Income and Rates) team, working on the bank’s ION electronic trading platform.  In this role, you will be responsible for supporting and extending this system and directly interacting with the bond, IRS, and repo trading desks.

We are a business-facing team and part of our value add is our in-depth knowledge of the trading business and in particular, fixed income and secured lending trading. Knowledge of front-office trading, and interest in finance and strong communication skills will help you be successful in this team.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

• Are naturally curious, and thrive on learning new things, whether it’s business, technology, or just something new to them.

• Have hands-on experience in running operations aligned to DevSecOps principles, contributing to the development, deployment, and support of solutions.

• Are comfortable working flexible hours to provide support for traders in a bustling and exciting trading floor environment, as well as be available for weekend releases when required

• Enjoy interactions with a variety of technical and non-technical people including traders, salespeople, risk specialists, application and infrastructure teams, and vendors.

• Work well with globally dispersed colleagues, take care of teammates, and have strong collaboration skills.

• Thrive in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

Tech Skills:

We use a broad range of tools, languages, and frameworks. We don’t expect you to know them all but experience or exposure with some of these, or a willing to learn these skillsets, (or equivalents) will set you up for success in this team:

• Experience in a platform engineering or support role

• Experience with front-office trading systems, e.g. ION MarketView or Anvil - Ideal

• Automation activities such as test automation e.g. TestComplete Pro, CI/CD automation, and automation of platform tasks

• Scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell, shell, Perl, Java to implement controls and tasks for building and releasing software continuously.

• Comfortable working in a Linux command-line environment

• Efficient working in a Windows desktop environment including tools such as Microsoft Word, Excel, JIRA, and Confluence.

• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity or GitHub Actions.

• Experience in using and configuring application monitoring tools such as ITRS Geneos, Splunk, ELK, Grafana.

Working with us:  

Whether you’re passionate about customer service, driven by data, or called by creativity, a career with us is for you.

We support our people with the flexibility to balance where work is done with at least half their time connecting in office. We also have many other flexible working options available including changing start and finish times, part-time arrangements and job share to name a few.

Our people bring their diverse backgrounds and unique perspectives to build a respectful, inclusive, and flexible workplace with flexible work locations. We’re looking for people who truly live our values: Care, Courage and Commitment and we’ll offer you great opportunities to develop your career with us.