Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

We are a growing team within the bank and constantly involved in industry changing solutions

You will be part of an innovative environment with likeminded individuals

Together we can place customers at the centre of what we do.

Do work that matters

The role of a Platform Engineer is to design, build, and run software platforms to deliver business value, and to write code that automates the running of our infrastructure and environments.

Collaboratively work with other customer facing engineers to design, build and run platforms that are used to deliver business value at greater quality, velocity, and safety. Write code that automates the operations of our platforms, infrastructure, environments, and tooling. Maintain the underlying infrastructure to ensure that it is reliable, secure and scalable. Contribute to making our platforms loved by our engineers and end-users.


Contribute to software that ensures all deployment and operations is as automated as possible, using languages such as Python, and automate implementation of controls into our platforms. Participate in cross-group activities to build a culture of one team, bar-raising both our engineering capability and our technology solutions to drive our strategy.

See yourself in our team

You will be part of the eFIR (Electronic Fixed Income and Rates) team, working on the bank’s ION electronic trading platform. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting and extending this system and directly interacting with the bond, IRS, and repo trading desks.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be contributing to the on-going support and extension of the ION platform, using your technical skills and business knowledge to solve real problems to maintain our leading market trading position. You will be conceiving and driving process improvements that add significant business value. You will also be invited to join our regular engineering guilds, both local and global, to engage in knowledge sharing and learning more world-class skills, techniques, and processes.

We’re interested in hearing from people who:

Are ready to be flexible with working hours to provide support for traders in a bustling and exciting trading floor environment, as well as be available for weekend releases when required

Have hands-on experience in running operations aligned to DevSecOps principles, contributing to the fundamental design, development/configuration, and deployment of the platform.

Have experience in driving test modernisation activities such as integrating test execution into CI/CD pipelines, and automation of other tasks including deployment of components to production.

Proven experience in building test automation frameworks from scratch, and ability to maintain existing test automation frameworks.

Ability to implement and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

Are naturally curious, and thrive on learning new things, whether it’s business, technology, or just something new to them.

Working with a sense of urgency by understanding business impacts and with excellent incident management skills.

Interact with various upstream and downstream application teams, front office support teams, vendors, developers and traders.