Market Data Engineer
Exciting Opportunity: Data Platform Engineer
Introduction
Our client is a global investment company that operates across Asia, Europe and the US, with innovative strategies at the core of their ethos, focusing on fixed-income with global macro perspectives, blending cutting-edge technology with human expertise.
About the Role
They are building a modern, secure, and high-performance data platform-and we're looking for a Data Platform Engineer with strong DevOps and integration experience to help them get there. You'll play a key role in integrating systems and services into our new platform, working with a cutting-edge stack in a private cloud environment.
What You'll Do
- Design and implement integration pipelines to onboard data sources and services onto the platform.
- Collaborate with platform and DevOps teams to automate infrastructure provisioning and service deployment using Terraform, Puppet, and Ansible.
- Manage authentication and authorisation flows using OIDC/Entra ID.
- Support and scale Trino and Apache Iceberg for high-performance querying and storage.
- Deploy and manage workloads using Nomad in a private cloud environment.
- Monitor system health and performance using tools like Grafana.
- Ensure secure, compliant, and reliable data operations across the platform.
What You Bring
- Solid experience in DevOps, infrastructure automation, and platform integration.
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, and Nomad.
- Familiarity with Trino, Apache Iceberg, and modern data lakehouse architectures.
- Strong understanding of OIDC, identity management, and access control.
- Experience working in on-prem/private cloud environments, ideally with HashiCorp tooling.
- Proficiency in containerisation and orchestration concepts.
- A collaborative mindset and a passion for building scalable, secure systems.
Nice to Have
- Experience with streaming data or real-time processing.
- Background in SRE or platform engineering.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices.
- Adaptability: Enthusiasm for a dynamic, hands-on environment with multiple concurrent projects
- Financial Insights (Optional): Experience with financial or market data is a plus.
Why Join Us?
- Be part of a transformative data journey from the ground up.
- Work with a forward-thinking team and a modern tech stack.
- Enjoy a culture that values innovation, autonomy, and continuous improvement.
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