IT & Software

Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Quant Capital

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this senior leadership role you will own the infrastructure strategy and delivery for a high-performance trading platform across cloud and on‑prem environments. You will drive AWS migration, build greenfield trading and research environments, and shape the long‑term engineering roadmap. You’ll lead a small, senior team with autonomy and impact, partnering with engineering, trading and risk functions to ensure highly available, low‑latency global infrastructure.

Pay / Benefits
  • bonus
Responsibilities
  • Own infrastructure architecture across cloud, on‑prem and hybrid platforms
  • Lead end-to-end AWS migration and modernisation strategy
  • Build greenfield environments for trading and research workloads
  • Design and operate highly available, low‑latency global infrastructure
  • Take ownership of Microsoft services, Active Directory and core networking
  • Engineer secure connectivity across firewalls, routing and multi-site links
  • Drive network security, segmentation and access control strategy
  • Lead and grow a high‑performing infrastructure/DevOps team
  • Partner closely with engineering, trading and risk functions
  • Automate provisioning and deployment with IaC (CloudFormation/Terraform/Ansible)
  • Scale monitoring, cost optimisation and system reliability in production
Key requirements
  • 3+ years in infrastructure leadership within trading, market-making or high‑performance engineering environments
  • 8+ years of experience
  • Strong AWS architecture and hybrid (cloud + on‑prem) experience
  • Deep networking background: routing, switching, low‑latency connectivity
  • Strong understanding of reliability engineering and autoscaling systems
  • Prior experience building and scaling teams in high‑performing environments
  • Confident interacting with technical and trading leadership
  • communication
  • leadership
  • stakeholder management
  • AWS (VPC, IAM, S3, ECS/EKS, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, CloudFormation)
  • Windows Server
  • Active Directory

Reference: WJ-747_31174170

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