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About the Role
This position supports multi-tenant private and public cloud initiatives, contributing to the delivery of services to core business areas globally. The role involves system integration, support, and continuous improvement with an emphasis on standardisation, repeatability, automation, and orchestration. It suits someone early in their Windows platform engineering career looking to build experience in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Cover BAU rota activities alongside business project initiatives.
- Manage workload, identify opportunities for improvement, and work alongside senior engineers to develop experience in solution design, scoping, and architecture.
- Support multi-tenant private and public cloud initiatives.
- Contribute to the delivery of services to core business areas globally, including Trading, middle and back office, and Technology.
- Perform system integration, support, and continuous improvement.
- Emphasize standardisation, repeatability, automation, and orchestration.
- Translate requirements into solutions and environments for proprietary and commercial software.
- Automate and orchestrate cross-platform services.
Requirements
- A minimum of 5 years of industry experience.
- Prior experience in a similar role within a Financial institution is advantageous.
- Comprehensive platform engineering and support experience biased towards the Microsoft server technology portfolio.
- Experience with On-premise bare metal hardware deployments (preferably HPE).
- Advanced virtualisation design, architecture, and support across VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V platforms.
- Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes.
- Enterprise integration experience with security, high availability, networking, and load balancing aspects to deliver applications and infrastructure.
- Experience administering Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, Entra ID, Teams and SharePoint Online.
- Experience and proficiency in translating requirements through to providing and supporting solutions and environments for both proprietary and commercial software.
- Platform engineering and support experience with public cloud platforms, preferably with a major Hyperscaler like Microsoft Azure or AWS.
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code methodologies with On-Prem and Cloud IaaS.
- Proficiency in automation and orchestration of cross-platform services using tools such as Source Control, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform and ServiceNow.
- Demonstrable scripting or programming skills in languages such as PowerShell, Python.
- Familiarity with APIs and data structures in JSON/YAML or similar.
- Experience with GenAI technologies via Public Cloud, OpenAI, AWS, etc.
- Analytical and methodical with a proven track record in problem-solving, critical BAU, advanced engineering and technology service delivery in a high-pressure, time-sensitive environment.
- Passion for emerging technology trends, innovations and directions.
- Ability to suggest and implement new solutions to enhance technology performance.
- Understanding of the need for rapid delivery while appreciating business risk and constraints to ensure adherence to service levels.
- Experience working both independently and as part of a diverse team.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Open communication.
- Collaborative approach.
- Commitment to continuous improvement, learning from others and sharing knowledge.
Skills
- Microsoft server technology portfolio
- On-premise bare metal hardware deployments (HPE)
- VMware
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft 365
- Exchange Online
- Entra ID
- Teams
- SharePoint Online
- Public cloud platforms (Microsoft Azure, AWS)
- Infrastructure as Code
- Source Control
- Ansible
- Jenkins
- Terraform
- ServiceNow
- PowerShell
- Python
- APIs
- JSON
- YAML
- GenAI technologies
- OpenAI
- Problem-solving
- Critical BAU
- Advanced engineering
- Technology service delivery
- Continuous improvement
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of 5 years of industry experience
- Early in their Windows platform engineering career
About the Company
- Our Technology Infrastructure team operates globally and is responsible for every aspect of the firm's hybrid platform, from EUC/Office environments to Trading and Core service Co-Location Data Centres, and extends to Public Cloud.
- We deliver top-tier technology services to a dynamic and demanding Trading organisation.
- We continuously evolve and transform our platforms to maintain a competitive edge.
- We innovate to provide valuable solutions and leverage our skilled Technology teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements.
Equal Opportunity
- BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce.
- As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.