Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

Wintermute, an algorithmic trading firm focused on digital assets, is hiring an Infrastructure Engineer for its Infrastructure Engineering team. The role maintains, optimises and scales a mixed computing environment across physical and virtual infrastructure, owns and advances server and network infrastructure, and drives automated setups. It works closely with senior engineers to scale systems while developing and deploying automation, especially in Python.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain, troubleshoot and improve networks, routing protocols and computing systems
• Develop and deploy automation solutions, particularly in Python
• Diagnose network performance issues, packet loss and latency
• Analyse and resolve complex hardware failures and performance bottlenecks
• Work on weekend and evening shifts and provide out-of-hours support for deployments, incidents and maintenance windows

Required profile

• Minimum of 5 years of systems administration, network infrastructure engineering or related experience
• Hands-on experience configuring, managing and troubleshooting Cisco switches (Catalyst or Nexus)
• Experience with Linux servers, enterprise applications and network infrastructure
• Ability to work in a team supporting mission-critical production systems
• Willingness to work weekends and evenings and provide out-of-hours support

Required skills

• Data centre connectivity, structured cabling and TCP/IP (IPv4/IPv6, subnetting)
• Network troubleshooting with Wireshark, tcpdump or traceroute
• Hardware lifecycle management and Linux server administration
• Git version control
• Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and SNMP
• Nice to have: firewall and ACL configuration, BGP/OSPF/static routing, Python scripting for automation

What we offer

• A performance-based compensation package with a significant earning potential
• Pension and private health insurance
• Office in central London and Singapore with amenities such as table tennis and foosball
• Team meals, festive celebrations, gaming events and team building