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Position:                                                               Senior Platform Engineer Reports to:                                                           Head of Platform Engineering About Us Systematica Investments Limited (acting as general partner of Systematica Investments LP) is a Jersey-based hedge fund manager with c.US$16b assets under management (AUM) across a diversified range of trading strategies. We employ over 130 colleagues in Jersey, Geneva, London, Singapore, New York and Shanghai. Purpose and Overview of Role This is a hands-on engineering role within the Platform Engineering team, part of Technology Operations. Platform Engineering is responsible for building and operating the infrastructure, platforms and developer tooling that enable our engineering and quantitative research teams to deliver software reliably, securely and at scale. The role will help design, build, automate and operate a hybrid production platform across AWS and on-premises environments, with a particular focus on the HashiCorp platform: Nomad, Consul and Vault. The successful candidate will treat infrastructure as software, promote automation-first practices and build reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, operational resilience and security. The role requires strong judgement when making platform changes, including understanding architecture, satisfying deployment prerequisites, managing YAML and infrastructure configuration carefully, and assessing impact across the wider platform during maintenance and change activity. Primary Duties •    Design, build, automate and operate the production platform across AWS and on-premises infrastructure. •    Own, maintain and evolve the HashiCorp platform, including Vault, Consul, Nomad and associated integrations. •    Use Terraform to define and manage infrastructure resources, configuration and reusable platform modules. •    Use Ansible to support multi-stage deployment workflows, configuration management and repeatable operational procedures. •    Build internal tooling, automation and self-service capabilities that improve developer productivity and reduce operational overhead. •    Support and enhance CI/CD platforms and engineering workflows, including safe promotion of infrastructure and platform changes. •    Improve platform reliability, security, observability, performance and operational excellence. •    Partner with software engineers, quantitative developers, research teams, Tech Ops and security colleagues to deliver secure, scalable and resilient platforms. HashiCorp Platform Responsibilities •    Treat Vault as a first-class platform component for secrets management, policies, PKI, audit logging, access controls and secure workload integration. •    Operate Consul for service discovery, health checking, service networking and service mesh capabilities, including secure integration with Vault. •    Operate Nomad for workload orchestration, ensuring robust integration with Consul for discovery and Vault for secrets and identity workflows. •    Implement and maintain least-privilege ACL models across Vault, Consul, Nomad, infrastructure and operational tooling. •    Maintain sane defaults, documented runbooks and secure operational patterns that make the platform easier for engineering teams to consume. General •    Any other duties commensurate with the post holder's position and seniority; and •    All employees should understand that it is their personal responsibility to comply with all organisational, statutory and regulatory policies and procedures. Experience, Knowledge, & Skills •    Five or more years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, infrastructure engineering or a closely related role; •    Strong experience operating production or prod