Junior Platform Engineer

About the role

Trayport's Operations team maintains its core application platforms, on-premise and in the cloud, with deployment, maintenance and observability responsibilities. As a Junior Platform Engineer you will deploy core applications on time so they are operational before market opening, act as a key contact for regional client support teams and help with incident investigation and resolution. The role also covers projects and day-to-day work streams.

Key responsibilities

• Be part of a global support team with smooth handovers between regional departments (London, Toronto, Singapore).
• Maintain and monitor existing on-premise and cloud infrastructure.
• Perform application maintenance and deployments outside core market hours, following industry best practices.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application issues ahead of market opening.
• Support client-facing teams with provisioning of new client infrastructure and upgrades.
• Use Infrastructure as Code to provision new resources.
• Work with Information Security to remediate risks and vulnerabilities.
• Carry out BAU systems administration tasks using automation such as PowerShell.
• Support development teams with deployment and maintenance of business-critical client-facing applications.

Required profile

• Desirable: previous experience in a FinTech environment and in an application support capacity.
• Desirable: understanding of Microsoft SQL principles and DevOps and SRE principles.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, work in a multi-talented team and handle shift work.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; knowledge of Agile and ITIL frameworks.

Required skills

• Infrastructure and OS background, Windows and Linux.
• Azure and AWS experience, e.g. AKS and EKS.
• Terraform, Ansible and other automation platforms.
• Azure DevOps pipelines and CI/CD.
• Grafana, Prometheus, Elastic and Splunk.
• Virtualisation, networking troubleshooting, Git and code reviews.