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About the Role
Maven Securities is seeking high-potential individuals for its Graduate Infrastructure Engineer Programme. This programme offers comprehensive training, real responsibility, and long-term development within a leading proprietary trading firm. You will gain exposure to critical infrastructure domains, contributing to the firm's sophisticated technology and quantitative analysis operations.
Responsibilities
- Keep trading-critical Linux systems running at the speed the business needs.
- Build and tune RHEL/Ubuntu estates that host our live trading environment.
- Gain exposure to kernel and NIC tuning for low-latency workloads.
- Understand and control how servers allocate resources to processes.
- Customize the OS and develop automation (via Ansible, Python, Bash) for building, patching, and rebuilding hosts.
- Operate and harden the network that market data and orders travel over.
- Work hands-on with Arista/Cisco/Juniper switching, BGP and OSPF routing, and multicast market data feeds.
- Perform packet capture and latency analysis for low-latency workloads.
- Join on-call rotations alongside senior engineers and work P1 incidents end-to-end during market hours.
- Learn how network blips are root-caused and fixed quickly.
- Build observability tools to catch problems before traders do.
- Instrument systems and network paths with Prometheus, Grafana, and logging stacks.
- Contribute to dashboards and alerting for infrastructure teams.
- Attend regular check-ins with the Infrastructure and Emerging Talent teams.
Requirements
- A final-year undergraduate or master’s student from a relevant degree background (Networking, Network Security, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or similar).
- Ability to adapt to a dynamic and high-paced environment.
- A willingness to adopt and utilise emerging AI technologies.
- An entrepreneurial thinker with the ability to generate ideas, take initiative and drive innovation.
- A critical problem solver and decision maker who can analyse situations, think clearly and make effective decisions.
- An agile learner who is able to quickly acquire knowledge, take on feedback, adapt and apply insights across different contexts.
- Able to synthesise information, resolve conflicting inputs, see the bigger picture, and translate complex information into actionable recommendations.
- Collaborative and influential, able to build trust, work effectively with others and positively impact the team.
- Results-focused and accountable, taking ownership and delivering outcomes reliably.
Skills
- Linux system administration
- RHEL/Ubuntu
- Kernel tuning
- NIC tuning
- Resource allocation
- OS customization
- Automation (Ansible, Python, Bash)
- Network operations
- Network hardening
- Arista/Cisco/Juniper switching
- BGP
- OSPF
- Multicast
- Packet capture
- Latency analysis
- Incident management
- Observability
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Logging
- Alerting
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Graduate
Education Level
- Undergraduate degree
- Master's degree
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave plus UK bank holidays
- Frequent social events
- Annual learning and development budget
- Wider training and development opportunities
- Daily breakfast and lunch in the London office
- Snacks and drinks throughout the day
- Private medical and dental cover
- Eye care support
- Life assurance
- Employer pension contributions
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Consideration for a discretionary annual bonus
- Relocation assistance
- Season ticket loan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced family-friendly policies (maternity, paternity, adoption, fertility, partner’s leave)
About the Company
- Maven Securities is a leading proprietary trading firm that leverages sophisticated technology and quantitative analysis to trade in global financial markets.
- We specialise in options and derivatives market making.
Equal Opportunity
- Maven is an equal opportunity employer.
- We are committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment.
- We welcome applications from all candidates regardless of background or identity.