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  • DevSecOps Engineer
    DevSecOps Engineer
    5 days ago
    £60000–£80000 yearly
    Full-time
    London

    Senior DevSecOps Engineer – GCP A high-growth technology company is hiring a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to strengthen cloud and platform security across the organisation. You’ll work closely with development, product and cloud teams to drive security culture, shape roadmaps and embed secure engineering practices. This is a hands-on, standalone role with real ownership — they’re not expecting someone who is 100% GCP-focused, but they do need a cloud engineer with recent DevSecOps experience and solid exposure to GCP alongside AWS or Azure. What You’ll Do • Strengthen cloud security across GCP infrastructure, • Build automated security guardrails into CI/CD pipelines, • Drive security culture and help shape engineering roadmaps, • Support company-wide security initiatives, including AI policy governance, • Implement and manage security tooling across cloud, Kubernetes and pipelines, • Work closely with dev and cloud teams to embed secure-by-design practices, • Act as a security champion, helping teams adopt secure patterns and improve delivery confidence What You’ll Bring • Cloud engineering background with recent DevSecOps experience, • Exposure to GCP (IAM, networking, security controls), • Kubernetes security experience (GKE/EKS/AKS), • Strong IaC skills (Terraform/OpenTofu), • Experience with security tooling (Aqua, Falco, Prisma, Checkov, Trivy, OPA etc.), • Scripting/automation skills (Python, Golang or Shell), • Ability to influence teams and drive security culture forward Hybrid working - 2 days per week in the London office If you’re passionate about secure cloud engineering and want to make a real impact in a scaling FinTech, we’d love to hear from you.

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  • Quantitative Researcher
    Quantitative Researcher
    11 days ago
    £10000–£15000 monthly
    Full-time
    London

    Key Responsibilities Research and develop systematic trading strategies for US equities and futures markets. Identify potential trading opportunities using statistical analysis, financial data and quantitative modelling. Build and maintain Python-based research, data-processing and backtesting tools. Design realistic backtests that account for transaction costs, slippage, liquidity constraints and execution assumptions. Apply robust validation methods, including out-of-sample testing, walk-forward analysis and sensitivity analysis. Investigate momentum, mean reversion, statistical arbitrage and market microstructure opportunities. Evaluate strategy performance using risk-adjusted returns, drawdowns, capacity and other relevant metrics. Contribute to portfolio construction, position sizing, risk controls and execution research. Document research methods, assumptions, results and limitations clearly. Essential Requirements Professional experience in quantitative research, systematic trading or a closely related field. Strong Python programming skills and experience working with financial or time-series data. Solid foundations in probability, statistics, time-series analysis and quantitative modelling. Practical experience developing, testing and evaluating quantitative trading strategies. Understanding of overfitting, look-ahead bias, survivorship bias and other common backtesting pitfalls. A rigorous, independent and evidence-driven approach to research. Strong analytical and communication skills. Desirable Experience Experience researching or trading US equities and futures. Knowledge of market microstructure, execution modelling and transaction cost analysis. Experience with statistical arbitrage, momentum, mean reversion or other systematic strategies. Familiarity with C++, performance optimisation or low-latency trading systems. Experience monitoring live strategies and analysing real-world execution. A postgraduate degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, finance or a related quantitative discipline. Compensation and Opportunity Competitive base salary of £80,000–£150,000 per annum, depending on experience and suitability. Performance-related bonus linked to individual contribution and business results. An opportunity to contribute directly to quantitative research and systematic strategy development. A research-focused environment that values analytical rigour, independent thinking and disciplined risk management.

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