Technology Platform Engineer - London, United Kingdom - Oxford Knight

Description

One of the world's top algorithmic trading firms is looking for a Windows Platform Engineer to join the IT team in their London office.

In this role, you will contribute to engineering their "next generation" Windows platform to satisfy the demands of the firm's global presence.

You will take part in a migration from an on-premise Hyper-V infrastructure to a Hybrid-Cloud Azure infrastructure that re-imagines device deployment, software deployment, configuration management and Microsoft Directory infrastructure; Engineer and implement a scalable global Microsoft Directory infrastructure that leverages technologies such as Microsoft Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, and Azure Active Directory Domain services
Implement a Windows-based VDI platform leveraging Microsoft Hyper-V HCI Clusters, Microsoft Storage Spaces, Microsoft Azure, and other supporting technologies
Implement and maintain Microsoft SQL Server clustered environments to improve performance and resilience
Support the maintenance of existing Microsoft platform infrastructure and Windows platform troubleshooting escalation requests

10+ years' experience as a Microsoft-based technology engineer
~ Proven experience designing and implementing clustered Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure environments
~ Microsoft SQL Server clusters implementation and management skills
~ Windows desktop and server configuration management skills
~ Familiarity with managing projects that span multiple teams to successful completion
~ This fund brings a scientific approach to trading financial products. They've built one of the world's most sophisticated computing environments for research and development, and their researchers are at the forefront of innovation in the world of algorithmic trading.

Colleagues come from all sorts of backgrounds: mathematics, computer science, statistics, physics, and engineering.

A community of self-starters who are motivated by the excitement of being at the cutting edge of automated trading, and their culture celebrates great ideas whether they come from veterans or new hires.