Bowden Brown
DevOps Engineer
Bowden BrownUnited Kingdom14 hours ago
Full-timeInformation Technology

DevOps Engineer – Global Trading Infrastructure


Our client is a technology-driven trading firm operating globally across digital asset markets. Our systems run continuously and at scale, supporting real-time decision-making in highly dynamic environments.


We are hiring a Junior Platform Engineer to help support and evolve a distributed infrastructure platform that underpins data acquisition and trading operations worldwide. This role offers early-career engineers meaningful production responsibility, exposure to complex systems, and the opportunity to work closely with experienced infrastructure and development teams.


The role

  • Take operational ownership of a globally distributed, always-on platform supporting time-sensitive data pipelines
  • Monitor, analyze, and improve system performance, reliability, and efficiency across infrastructure and networking layers
  • Partner with software engineers on architecture decisions, deployment strategies, and production readiness
  • Collaborate with a central infrastructure function to improve shared tooling, standards, and operational practices
  • Work within a multi-region, multi-cloud environment, including evaluating and onboarding new service providers
  • Apply Linux and networking knowledge to tuning, troubleshooting, and incident response
  • Participate in an on-call rotation while actively working to reduce manual intervention through automation and better design


What we’re looking for

  • A bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related STEM discipline
  • At least two years of professional experience in an infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering role
  • Hands-on production experience in cloud environments, with strong familiarity with AWS and modern networking concepts
  • Experience working across multiple regions or cloud providers is highly valued
  • Practical scripting or development experience using one or more of the following: Bash, Python, Java, C#, Rust, or similar
  • A solid foundation in Linux systems and network fundamentals, with an interest in performance optimization


Desirable experience

  • Containerized workloads in production environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Monitoring and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk
  • Infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents


What we offer

  • Exposure to real-world, high-availability systems with global reach
  • A steep technical learning curve and close collaboration with senior engineers
  • The opportunity to grow into more senior platform, infrastructure, or SRE roles
  • Competitive compensation and a professional, engineering-led culture

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