Principal Infrastructure Engineer, IG Group
3 days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)
Global fintech investment platform
Posted today
Global fintech investment platform
1001+ employees
Posted today
3 days a week in office (Cannon Street, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To power the pursuit of financial freedom for the ambitious.
Role
Who you are
- Strong working knowledge of Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), requiring a mix of infrastructure, virtualisation, and cloud-native skills
- Firm grasp of hypervisors: AHV (preferred), VMware ESXi, or Hyper-V in Nutanix clusters
- Experience with VM provisioning, live migration, cloning, snapshots, and DR within HCI environments
- Knowledge of distributed storage fabric and how Nutanix abstracts and pools storage
- PowerShell, Python, or REST APIs for automating tasks, familiarity with Nutanix REST APIs or CLI tools (ncli, acli)
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues across compute, storage, and network layers
- Strong communication and collaboration skills for working with cross-functional IT teams
- Previous experience working with Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure is essential
What the job involves
- As a Principal Infrastructure Engineer, you will play a key role in building and enhancing the infrastructure that powers our fast-growing retail brokerage business while also supporting various other business initiatives
- With a lean team and a management philosophy that values autonomy, you’ll have the freedom to shape impactful solutions
- In this role, you'll ensure the reliability and efficiency of the infrastructure by staying ahead of evolving technologies, proactively identifying potential issues, and leading multiple tasks and projects. Our goal is to maintain the most stable, performant Infrastructure possible, to deliver the best experience for our customers
- Lead the design of scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure (on-premise, cloud, or hybrid)
- Work closely with software engineers, DevOps, and SRE teams to align infrastructure with application needs
- Define infrastructure standards, best practices, and reference architectures
- Optimize infrastructure usage for performance and cost-efficiency
- Drive Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform
- Serve as a technical advisor to leadership, helping with strategic planning and investment decisions
- Mentor junior Infrastructure engineers and provide technical guidance
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Founded in 1974 by Stuart Wheeler as a UK-based spread betting company for gold, IG Group abbreviated from Investors Gold Index, spent the first quarter century focused on trading physical assets. It was only in the year 2000 that it was finally listed on the London Stock Exchange and its gradual evolution into the world of fintech began.
By 2011 after various gambling industry-related controversies, the company had played a part in numerous international buyouts before finally narrowing its focus down to financial wagers. During the latter half of that decade, IG shut down its binary options trading platform and focused instead on building an investment portfolio with partner BlackRock Investments, all whilst maintaining its Forex and CFD trading processes. Since then, it has become a fast-paced market leader in the investment space.
In recent years, IG Group has developed major platforms for various trading actions and has grown profit and revenue significantly despite various investment setbacks. Thanks to its agility and reaction speed to changing financial tides, it's proven itself to be a staple of the financial trading world.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Matched giving for your fundraising activity
- Performance-related bonuses
- Pension, insurance and medical plans
- Career-focused technical and leadership training in class and online, including unlimited access to the LinkedIn Learning platform
- Contribution to gym memberships and more
- A day off on your birthday
- Two days’ volunteering leave per year
- Best-in-class shift allowance
- Out-of-hours transport entitlement
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Breon Corcoran
(CEO, not founder)Joined IG Group as CEO in January 2024. Prior to this, they were the CEO of WorldRemit and a Non-Executive Director at Tilney Group.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at IG Group
- Employee-led LGBTQ+, Women’s, Black and Parents & Carers networks with an annual budget for organising events & projects that foster an open, diverse and inclusive culture.
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