Platform Engineering Manager in London

Marex is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution.

It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022.

The Group provides access to the world's major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years.

Headquartered in London with 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

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The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability, and security for the business.

Reporting to the COO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups.

Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams' aligned to specific business areas.

Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.

IT runs our enterprise-wide services to end users and actively manages the firm's infrastructure and data to provide and accelerate business value.

A Data team enables the firm to leverage data to increase productivity and improve business decisions, as well as maintain data compliance.

Our Infrastructure group delivers operations and engineering across Infrastructure Operations, Network, Communications, Endpoint and Platform Engineering.

The Platform Engineering function strives to automate infrastructure management and provide Marex technology teams with self-service tools and workflows with the aim to streamline software delivery in the cloud or on-premises and accelerate the pace of innovation.

As the Platform Engineering manager, you will lead a team creating a platform where building, testing, and releasing of software can happen rapidly, frequently and reliably.

You will be a DevOps advocate working closely with development and operations teams improving collaboration whilst removing any impediments through automation, improved tooling, or processes.

You will oversee the use of our AWS and Azure Cloud environments, ensuring they are resilient and secure whilst providing our teams the capabilities to innovate rapidly.

Responsibilities:

•Identifies and manages resources needed for the planning, development and delivery of cloud resources and applications.

•Influences the IT department through automation, cloud best practises, observability and monitoring and managing the performance of automated systems and services.

•Work with systems architects to ensure application-level considerations are met when implementing solutions.

•Develops and builds the team, defining career pathways and identifying new talent to expand the team's skillset and knowledge.

•Deliver and maintain a continuous integration and deployment platform that integrates with the internal application process and internal controls.

•Reporting on costs and seeks opportunities to reduce spend.

•Improving the cloud security posture and reporting on risks.

•Ensuring cloud platform are resilient to availability zone outages.

•Maintaining an inventory of services under the team's ownership.

•Manage vendor relationships and license renewals for services.

•Responsibility for the architecture and security standards within the cloud, ensuring audit and financial safeguards are adhered to.

•Creating and enforcing cloud governance policies, aligned with industry standards.

•Stay abreast of SDLC and Cloud best practices and guide the team on adoption.

•Effectively manage on-call rotas to ensure round the clock service availability and be a point of escalation as required.

Competencies:

•A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment•Demonstrates curiosity•Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment•Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others•Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Skills and Experience:

Essential: •Managing a team of experienced cloud/software engineers.

•Agile, Scrum, Kanban.

•Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

•Experience with all aspects of SDLC.

•Extensive hands on with AWS.

•Proficiency in Python or PowerShell.

•Infrastructure as code, Terraform or CloudFormation•Containerisation, docker, ECS, EKS, Kubernetes.

•Security of the cloud, monitoring, compliance, IAM.

Desirable: •Cloud cost optimisation.

•Maturing practices in the cloud and applying to on-premises platforms.

•Hands on with Azure.

•Delivery and management of Observability and monitoring platforms.

•Implementation of API gateways, Lambda.

•Working in a regulated environment and knowledge of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this.

If you're forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all.

We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role.

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. 

We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce.  

Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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