Platform Engineer


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Beacon Platform

Listed on

22nd June 2022

Location

London

Salary/Rate

Competitive + Benefits

Salary Notes

Competitive + Benefits

Type

Permanent

Start Date

ASAP

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About Beacon Platform: Beacon was founded in 2014 by Kirat Singh and Mark Higgins, industry leaders in building and designing enterprise-scale trading, analytics, and risk management platforms. Beacon Platform enables financial institutions of all sizes to operationalize front-office development at enterprise scale on the cloud. The Platform consists of Beacon Front Office Suite for cross-asset management of trades, positions and risk, and Beacon Core, an integrated development and operating platform that enables quants and software engineers to collaboratively develop and continuously deploy business solutions. Beacon's open architecture and transparent source-code model empower clients to achieve their business goals while maintaining unparalleled ownership of the full technology stack. Beacon is a collaborative and innovative team with over 250 employees headquartered in New York, London, Berlin and Tokyo. Flexible working hours and location are supported.

About the role: 

The Platform Engineering team is responsible for the development and support of Beacon's cloud based Platform-as-a-Service offering. The successful candidate will help the team develop new platform capabilities and integrations, as well as refactoring and maintaining Beacon's existing suite of Platform Engineering tooling.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop, implement and support new platform components, integrations between the Beacon Platform and cloud vendor offerings, platform deployment strategies, and other such tools.

Refactor, review and remediate bugs and issues in Beacon's existing Platform Engineering codebase

Contribute to the architecture design of new Platform Engineering components and offerings

Collaborate with the various other teams within Beacon during the deployment of particularly challenging or ambitious Beacon Platform instances

Research industry best practices and new emerging technologies to ensure Beacon always provides the best value to our clients

Engage in the review and approval of new code contributions within the Platform

Preferred Attributes:

Self starter who is passionate about delivering high quality solutions for our clients, whilst taking ownership of their work

Comfortable with fast paced and dynamic environments

Attentive to details & fast learner - eager to deep-dive into technical components and take an analytical approach to understanding the root cause of issues where they arise

Able to effectively communicate complex technical scenarios to non-technical team members

Technical Skill Requirements:

Strong software development skills and fluency - Python or other modern scripting language (Ruby, Go, Javascript etc)

Comfortable working in a Linux environment

Foundational understanding of public cloud concepts

Computer Science related degree, or equivalent experience

Nice to haves:

Previous experience building solutions in AWS, Azure or GCP - programmatically interacting with public cloud vendor APIs

Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform & Puppet

Experience with Container orchestration & management - Docker/Kubernetes/EKS/AKS

About Us: We are smart, curious people who want to work in an environment that respects all of our lives and interests. This means we all care about and respect the boundaries of work-life balance -- but when we work, we work hard and with great attention to detail. 

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