Infrastructure Support Engineer

WPP

WPP is the trusted growth partner for the world’s leading brands.  We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company – powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.    We work with the world's most valuable brands and have global reach across 100+ markets, with deep local expertise.   Our people are the key to our success. We're committed to fostering a culture of creativity, belonging and continuous learning, attracting and developing the brightest talent, and providing exciting career opportunities that help our people grow.    For more information, visit WPP.com.   Why we're hiring: The Head of Infrastructure, Data & Technology Solutions is responsible for establishing and coordinating the infrastructure standards, operating model, governance, and cross-cutting platform capabilities required to run DTS products securely, reliably and consistently.  DTS operates a federated model, where specialist product and platform teams retain autonomy for how they build, deploy and operate their own environments. The Head of Infrastructure ensures those teams operate within a common set of DTS standards for reliability, observability, security, deployment control, cost visibility, operational readiness and resilience.  The role will work closely with the CTO, Chief Architect, SVP Data Collaboration Infrastructure, SVP Security and Compliance, TechOps, Engineering, Product, Enterprise Technology and platform leads across InfoSum, Open Intelligence, Resolve and other DTS capabilities.  The purpose of the role is to create alignment and visibility across infrastructure and providing the autonomy needed by specialist teams to operate according to agreed standards and principles.   What you'll be doing: 1. Infrastructure standards and operating model Define and maintain the common infrastructure standards that DTS platforms must meet.  This includes:  * Working with DTS leadership to define infrastructure principles, minimum standards and operating expectations.  * Establishing standards for reliability, observability, deployment governance, security, resilience, cost visibility and operational readiness.  * Ensuring standards are practical and can be adopted by different DTS platform teams.  * Creating a clear infrastructure operating model that distinguishes between central standards and product-team autonomy.  * Ensuring infrastructure standards are aligned with DTS architecture, security, product and commercial priorities.    1. Federated infrastructure governance Coordinate a federated infrastructure model across DTS.  This includes:  * Ensuring InfoSum, Open Intelligence, Resolve and other platform teams can operate their own infrastructure while meeting common DTS requirements.  * Avoiding unnecessary centralisation that would slow down specialist teams or remove useful autonomy.  * Defining where common tooling or central coordination is required.  * Ensuring each product/platform team has clear infrastructure ownership and accountability.  * Creating mechanisms to monitor whether teams are operating within agreed standards.    1. Alignment with DTS leadership Ensure infrastructure decisions are aligned with senior DTS leadership and broader platform strategy.  This includes:  * Taking direction from the CTO, Chief Architect, SVP Data Collaboration Infrastructure and SVP Security and Compliance on infrastructure priorities.  * Translating DTS architecture and security principles into practical infrastructure standards.  * Working with DTS leaders to resolve trade-offs between autonomy, standardisation, cost, security and reliability.  * Ensuring infrastructure decisions support the wider DTS platform direction.  * Providing leadership with visibility of infrastructure risks, gaps, dependencies and progress.    1. Deployment governance and change visibility Create common deployment governance and production change visibility across DTS.  This includes:  * Defining minimum standards for production deployment processes.  * Establishing central visibility of who deployed what, when and where.  * Supporting release gates, change records and deployment auditability.  * Enabling teams to use their own deployment tooling while reporting into a common deployment record.  * Supporting mechanisms to pause or control deployments during high-risk or sensitive periods.  * Ensuring deployment activity can be correlated with incidents, outages and platform instability.    1. Observability,monitoringand operational visibility  Define common observability and monitoring expectations across DTS platforms.  This includes:  * Establishing standards for logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and dashboards.  * Ensuring product teams provide the right operational and security telemetry.  * Supporting cross-platform visibility for incidents, chained attacks, service degradation and performance issues.  * Working with Security Operations on SIEM, SOC and threat detection requirements.  * Ensuring infrastructure and application events are visible to the right operational teams.    1. Reliability,resilienceand operational readiness  Ensure DTS platforms meet agreed reliability and resilience expectations.  This includes:  * Defining standards for service-level objectives, availability, recovery, incident readiness and operational maturity.  * Working with platform teams to ensure services are designed and operated to appropriate reliability levels.  * Supporting disaster recovery, business continuity and operational readiness requirements.  * Ensuring teams have appropriate runbooks, escalation paths and incident response processes.  * Tracking recurring operational issues and ensuring they are addressed through the appropriate teams.    1. Infrastructure security alignment Work with Security and Compliance to ensure infrastructure standards support DTS security requirements.  This includes:  * Ensuring infrastructure standards reflect security requirements around access control, network exposure, ingress/egress, secrets, logging and hardening.  * Working with the Cloud and Platform Security Lead where applicable.  * Ensuring teams provide evidence that required infrastructure security controls are in place.  * Supporting the reduction of unnecessary public exposure across DTS services.  * Ensuring infrastructure governance supports audit, compliance and client assurance requirements.    1. Cost visibility and capacity oversight Establish infrastructure cost transparency and capacity visibility across DTS.  This includes:  * Defining standards for cloud cost reporting and allocation.  * Ensuring teams can report infrastructure cost by product, platform, client or workload where appropriate.  * Identifying areas of duplication, waste or inefficient infrastructure use.  * Supporting capacity planning across growing DTS platforms and AI/data workloads.  * Providing leadership with clear visibility of infrastructure cost drivers and optimisation opportunities.    1. Relationship with TechOps Work closely with the TechOps function while maintaining clear ownership boundaries.  TechOps is responsible for day-to-day delivery operations, environment support, release coordination and operational support to engineering teams.  The Head of Infrastructure is responsible for defining infrastructure standards, governance, shared visibility, reliability expectations and cross-DTS platform coordination.  This includes:  * Partnering with TechOps to ensure infrastructure standards are practical in delivery workflows.  * Using TechOps feedback to identify recurring operational issues and improvement opportunities.  * Avoiding duplication of TechOps responsibilities.  * Ensuring delivery operations and infrastructure governance operate as a joined-up capability.  * Clarifying when issues should be handled by TechOps, product engineering, infrastructure teams, security or DTS leadership.    1. Common tooling and shared platform capabilities Identify and coordinate shared tooling where it benefits DTS.  This includes:  * Assessing where common tooling should be used for deployment governance, observability, incident management, cost reporting, infrastructure inventory and operational reporting.  * Avoiding unnecessary standardisation where teams need specialist tooling.  * Supporting common integration points rather than forcing all teams onto identical infrastructure stacks.  * Defining central capabilities that allow teams to remain autonomous while providing DTS-wide visibility.  * Working with Architecture and Infrastructure teams to introduce shared services where there is clear value.      Who you'll be working with: The Head of Infrastructure will be accountable for:  * Common DTS infrastructure standards and operating model.  * Federated infrastructure governance across DTS platforms.  * Alignment of infrastructure activity with DTS leadership direction.  * Deployment governance and production change visibility.  * Observability, monitoring and operational visibility standards.  * Reliability, resilience and operational readiness expectations.  * Infrastructure cost visibility and reporting.  * Clear distinction and partnership between Infrastructure and TechOps.  * Infrastructure alignment with DTS architecture, security and compliance requirements.  * Ensuring platform teams retain autonomy while meeting common DTS standards.    What you'll need: The successful candidate will have:  * Multiple years of experience overseeing infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, cloud operations or technology operations leadership.  * Strong understanding of cloud platforms, deployment models, observability, reliability, infrastructure governance and operational resilience.  * Experience working in federated or matrixed technology organisations.  * Ability to define standards and operating models without over-centralising delivery.  * Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment governance, incident management, monitoring, logging and production operations.  * Good knowledge of infrastructure security, access control, network exposure, cloud posture and operational risk.  * Ability to influence senior technical leaders and product/platform teams without relying solely on line authority.  * Strong stakeholder management skills across Engineering, Architecture, Security, Product, TechOps and Enterprise Technology.  * Ability to balance autonomy, consistency, security, reliability and delivery speed.  * Clear communication skills and the ability to create practical standards that teams can adopt.    Leadership expectations  The Head of Infrastructure is expected to:  * Act as a coordinator and enabler, not a central blocker.  * Respect the autonomy of specialist product and platform teams.  * Create clarity around infrastructure standards and expectations.  * Work closely with DTS senior leadership and take direction from agreed architecture and security strategy.  * Build trust with TechOps, Engineering, Infrastructure, Security and Product teams.  * Challenge teams where infrastructure practices create risk, poor visibility or operational weakness.  * Avoid unnecessary centralisation while reducing fragmentation where it creates risk.  * Provide clear reporting on infrastructure health, cost, reliability and operational readiness.    Success measures  Success in the role will be measured by:  * DTS having clear and adopted infrastructure standards.  * Product and platform teams operating autonomously while meeting common DTS expectations.  * Improved visibility of deployments and production changes across DTS.  * Better observability and monitoring across DTS platforms.  * Clearer understanding of infrastructure ownership and operational accountability.  * Improved ability to correlate incidents with deployments and infrastructure changes.  * Reduced infrastructure fragmentation where it creates operational, security or cost risk.  * Improved infrastructure cost transparency.  * Stronger alignment between Infrastructure, TechOps, Security, Architecture and Engineering.  * Leadership having confidence in the reliability, visibility and governability of DTS infrastructure.  Who you are: You're open: We are inclusive and collaborative; we encourage the free exchange of ideas; we respect and celebrate diverse views. We are open-minded: to new ideas, new partnerships, new ways of working. You're optimistic: We believe in the power of creativity, technology and talent to create brighter futures or our people, our clients and our communities. We approach all that we do with conviction: to try the new and to seek the unexpected. You're extraordinary: we are stronger together: through collaboration we achieve the amazing. We are creative leaders and pioneers of our industry; we provide extraordinary every day.   What we'll give you: Passionate, inspired people – We aim to create a culture in which people can do extraordinary work. Scale and opportunity – We offer the opportunity to create, influence and complete projects at a scale that is unparalleled in the industry. Challenging and stimulating work – Unique work and the opportunity to join a group of creative problem solvers. Are you up for the challenge? #LI-Hybrid  We believe the best work happens when we're together, fostering creativity, collaboration, and connection. That's why we’ve adopted a hybrid approach, with teams in the office around four days a week. If you require accommodations or flexibility, please discuss this with the hiring team during the interview process. WPP is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without discrimination or regard to particular characteristics. We are committed to fostering a culture of respect in which everyone feels they belong and has the same opportunities to progress in their careers. PLEASE READ OUR PRIVACY NOTICE (HTTPS://WWW.WPP.COM/EN/CAREERS/WPP-PRIVACY-POLICY-FOR-RECRUITMENT) FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW WE PROCESS THE INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE.

Qube Research & Technologies

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology- and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high-quality returns for our investors. The Third-Party Applications (3PA) team is responsible for the onboarding, operation, support, and continuous improvement of business-critical third-party platforms used across the firm. The team works closely with traders, quantitative researchers, developers, infrastructure teams, vendors, and business users to ensure applications remain reliable, scalable, and well-supported. YOUR FUTURE ROLE WITHIN QRT You will: * Provide support for third-party applications across on-premises, AWS, and SaaS environments. * Manage and troubleshoot applications such as Refinitiv, Grafana, Tableau, ChatGPT, and other business-critical platforms. * Collaborate with business and technology teams to onboard new applications and enhance existing services. * Design, deploy, and maintain application platforms, ensuring high availability, performance, and operational stability. * Monitor application health, investigate issues, and proactively address potential service disruptions. * Work with internal users and external vendors to resolve incidents and minimise service impact. * Perform root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes to improve platform reliability. * Partner with traders, quantitative researchers, and developers to support and optimise application environments. * Develop and enhance automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual processes. * Build and maintain scalable operational processes, controls, and monitoring solutions. * Contribute to continuous improvements in service delivery, monitoring, and operational workflows. YOUR PRESENT SKILLSET * 3+ years of experience in Application Support, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a similar role. * Experience supporting and troubleshooting enterprise applications in production environments. * Strong understanding of incident, problem, and change management processes. * Experience with AWS services, including ECS, RDS, and IAM. * Experience using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Terraform and Ansible. * Experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including Grafana and Splunk. * Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, Bash, or PowerShell. * Hands-on troubleshooting experience across Linux and Windows environments. * Understanding of networking concepts and application connectivity troubleshooting. * Experience working with Git-based development workflows and DevOps tooling. * Experience supporting financial market data platforms such as Refinitiv is beneficial. * Familiarity with collaboration and operational tools such as GitHub, Slack, and OpsGenie is advantageous. QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

Copper

Since being founded in 2018, Copper has been building the standard for institutional digital asset infrastructure with a focus on custody, collateral management, and prime services. Led by Amar Kuchinad, Copper's Global CEO, the firm provides a comprehensive suite of custody, trading and settlement solutions that reduce counterparty risk and bring greater capital and operational efficiency to digital asset markets. At the heart of Copper's offering is Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology – the gold standard in secure custody. Copper’s multi-award winning custody system is unique in that it can be connected to centralised exchanges, DeFi applications and even staking pools without the assets leaving the custody. Built on top of this state-of-the-art custody, ClearLoop is the first solution in the market that overcomes a growing industry challenge; counterparty risk with exchanges. This solution underpins a full prime services offering, connecting global exchanges, and enabling customers to trade and settle directly from the safety of their MPC-secured wallets. By reducing settlement time for transfers to a few milliseconds (without blockchain network dependency) and offering enhanced security measures, ClearLoop is rapidly reshaping the way asset managers trade and manage capital. In addition to industry-leading security certifications, Copper has one of the strongest insurance coverages in the industry from an A+ rated insurer, positioning the firm as the partner of choice for institutions seeking to safeguard their assets. Department/Team Purpose:   The Engineering department is the backbone of Copper; entrusted with the critical responsibility of building and securing the infrastructure that safeguards billions of dollars in digital assets. We operate at the intersection of traditional institutional finance and decentralized blockchain technology.  We believe the best infrastructure comes from curious minds working openly together. Our engineering organisation brings together people with diverse backgrounds and experiences who genuinely enjoy solving hard problems. We foster a blame-free, intellectually honest environment where you're encouraged to take thoughtful risks and think big. You'll have the autonomy to own meaningful projects while gaining the support you need to grow your skills and advance your career.  Role Purpose:   We’re looking for a Senior DevOps engineer at the intersection of software development and platform engineering. In this role, your focus will be enabling fast, reliable, and secure delivery of our systems, whilst continuously improving how our infrastructure is built and operated, including our blockchain environments.  Day-to-day, you’ll tackle platform and deployment challenges through pragmatic engineering and automation. You’ll build and operate scalable, self-service infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and blockchain platforms, including node provisioning, network deployment, and lifecycle management. You’ll optimise build and release pipelines, improve system resilience, and ensure ‘traditional’ and blockchain infrastructure can scale with the needs of the business.  You will collaborate closely with engineering and SRE teams, focusing on infrastructure as code, developer experience, and operational scalability across the engineering organisation, with ownership of the reliability and performance of blockchain nodes and supporting systems.  Key Responsibilities:    * Building a fault-tolerant, geographically distributed infrastructure: support of multiple data centres, providing replication, sharding, auto balancing and failover.  * Participating in deployment of services with strict availability requirements on a large-scale environment and working together with other Engineers to ensure our systems meet current and future demand.  * Develop and maintain code for automated infrastructure management (DevOps, Infrastructure as Code) with the use of Ansible and Terraform.  * Working collaboratively with the Backend Engineering team to increase our resilience through insightful systems and application metrics.  * Improving our CI/CD pipeline to provide new integration vectors. Building and maintaining infrastructure for its own fleet of blockchain nodes (>25 layer 1 protocols now, and more to come)  * On-Call support to ensure 24/7 availability of all systems.   Skills and Experience:   Essential    * 5+ year's experience as a DevOps Engineer operating production-grade infrastructure.  * Hands-on experience running and maintaining blockchain infrastructure (e.g. node deployment, syncing, upgrades, monitoring, and troubleshooting).  * Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) and automated environment provisioning.  * Strong experience with containerisation and Kubernetes, including production operations and cluster management; EKS preferred.  * Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and deployment tools such as ArgoCD.  * Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (VPCs, routing, load balancing, DNS, firewalls).  * Experience implementing and operating secure systems (IAM, secrets management, network security controls, vulnerability management).  * Proficiency with at least one development language (e.g., bash, Python, Go).  * Strong troubleshooting skills across distributed systems and production environments.  * Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities.  * Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.  Desirable    * Experience working within crypto organisation  * Experience in Financial Services   Why Copper?    At Copper, we keep innovation, openness, and curiosity at the centre of everything we do. Here, bold ideas get the spotlight, learning is constant, and diversity shapes our team from the ground up.  Jump into a fast-moving, dynamic team that loves a challenge and knows how to have fun along the way. Collaboration is just as important as results—you’ll be surrounded by smart, driven colleagues in London and across our APAC, Switzerland, UAE, and US offices.  Hybrid working model – we believe in the value of bringing people together and at the same time we embrace the adaptability of flexibly working.  Diversity and inclusion matter to us – they’re woven into Copper life. From employee-led groups like Women at Copper to a committee focused on community and wellbeing, you’ll have a network that supports you from day one. Everyone voice matters.   If you’re looking to ramp up your career, or keen to do something new in your field, with us, you’ll keep moving forward.  Ready to make your mark, keep growing, and join a supportive, dynamic team? Copper’s the place.  The interview process at Copper    Our interview process is designed to be thoughtful, efficient, and engaging. While specific steps may vary slightly depending on the role, the typical journey includes:  1. Initial Screening A brief conversation with our Talent Acquisition team to explore your background, motivations, and alignment with the role.  1. Technical Interview A virtual session conducted via Microsoft Teams, where you'll engage with team members to discuss relevant skills, problem-solving approaches, and technical experience.  1. In-Person Interview A conversation focused on team dynamics, collaboration style, and any final technical questions. This may be with cross-functional peers or leadership.  Additional steps may be added based on the role's complexity or seniority. We aim to keep the process transparent and respectful of your time.  Benefits   In return for everything you can bring to Copper, we can offer you an exciting, challenging role in a fast-growing and dynamic business, with career opportunities and welcoming working environment. Some of our key UK benefits are highlighted below:   * Paid Time Off - A minimum of 35 days of paid time off per year, inclusive of annual leave and public holidays. Employees also receive one additional day of annual leave for each year of service.  * Comprehensive Medical Insurance - Inclusive of dental, optical, audiology, and mental health coverage, with medical history disregarded  * Life Insurance  * Enhanced Pension Contributions - Includes an enhanced employer matching contribution  * 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)  If you think you have everything we're looking for and more, then we'd love you to apply for the opportunity.   Copper is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity and equal opportunities in a serious way. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. So, bring us your experience, perspectives, and skills. It is in our differences that we will continue to grow and ensure Copper is transforming how institutional investors engage with digital assets. Copper is a Disability Confident Employer, please let us know if you have a disability. If you require us to provide any assistance during the recruitment process, then we would ask you to highlight this to us and we will be happy to accommodate.