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# Network Platform Engineer at BlueCrest Capital Management

- **Company:** BlueCrest Capital Management
- **Location:** London England, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-07-29
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bluecrestcapitalmanagement/jobs/7820164003

## Job description

Department Overview:

Our Technology Infrastructure team operates globally and is responsible for every aspect of the firm's hybrid platform. This ranges from our EUC/Office environments to Trading and Core service Co-Location Data Centres, and extends to Public Cloud, delivering top-tier technology services to a dynamic and demanding Trading organisation.

In addition to meeting the round-the-clock operational demands of the platforms, we continuously evolve and transform our platforms to maintain a competitive edge that our business requires. We innovate to provide valuable solutions and leverage our skilled Technology teams to deliver against rapidly changing business requirements.

Role Overview:

The Network Platform Engineer focus will be responsible for managing, supporting, and enhancing BlueCrest’s global network infrastructure, including data networks, telecommunications, network security, advanced IP services, and unified communications.

This role sits within the Infrastructure Platform team and offers opportunities to work across other core platforms, including Linux, Storage, Windows and Hypervisors. As a result, a broad range of experience and a strong understanding of how wider technology infrastructure platforms integrate and co-exist would be beneficial. In particular, solid Unix operating system knowledge and operational experience would be an advantage.

Additionally, we are looking for engineers who bring the experience and mindset needed to help us adopt modern technology practices, including Infrastructure as Code, AI-enabled operations, automation-led delivery, and SRE practices. As we continue to grow our hybrid networking capabilities across on-premise/colocation, Azure and AWS, we are seeking expertise in designing, building, and supporting robust, deterministic cloud network environments.

Key Responsibilities:

- Monitor, support, and maintain BlueCrest’s global networks and related systems.
- Carry out BAU changes across all network systems in line with the change control process.
- Design and build network products for on-premises data centres, colocation trading, offices, WAN, and cloud infrastructure.
- Responsible for network security area, with experience operating and maintaining next-generation firewall platforms.
- Develop and maintain network systems and associated code, following Infrastructure as Code and SRE practices.
- Design and deliver project work across all networking disciplines and wider infrastructure platforms.
- Contribute to the architecture and roadmap for BlueCrest’s networks and platforms.
- Maintain data centre and communications room environments, including racking and patching network equipment.
- Manage third-party vendors, data centre providers, and telecoms providers.

Experience and Skills required:

An experienced network engineer with a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a financial institution/ fast-paced environment

Essential Skills

- Deep understanding of TCP/IP protocols and networking fundamentals, equivalent to CCNP level.
- Strong Cisco hardware, switching, and routing experience across data centre and enterprise networks.
- Cisco ACI
- Cisco IOS-XE switches and routers
- Cisco ACI
- Cisco IOS-XE switches and routers
- Experience with next-generation firewalls, particularly Palo Alto platforms.
- BAU changes: Policies, NAT, Routing
- Monitoring: analyse firewall logs with next gen features
- BAU changes: Policies, NAT, Routing
- Monitoring: analyse firewall logs using next-generation firewall features.
- Proficient with fundamental Unix operating system knowledge, skills, and working experience.
- Advanced Azure and AWS cloud networking experience.

Desirable Skills

- Infrastructure as Code and SRE for Network skills including using API, Programming, Scripting and Orchestration skills
- Python, Ansible and Terraform
- Rest APIs
- CI/CD pipeline
- Experience in office infrastructure design, build and migration.
- Experience in Datacentre physical and logical migrations.
- Network performance monitoring and packet capture.
- Experience in support VoIP technologies.
- Avaya Enterprise Call Managers or equivalent
- Turret system or equivalent trade voice
- Microsoft Teams

About You:

The ideal candidate will be joining a progressive and collaborative working environment that promotes teamwork, technical excellence, and innovative solutions. This role is particularly suitable for a team player who is highly motivated and thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced and demanding trading environment. We are seeking someone who can work autonomously, efficiently and methodically under pressure, multi-tasking and adapting quickly to learn new skills. An experienced platform engineer with networks focus and a minimum of 5 years of experience working in a financial institution or within a fast-paced dynamic environment would be a suitable fit for this role. This role may require flexible working hours to implement changes out of business hours in all regions (US/EMEA/APAC) and respond to P1 issue callout. The selected candidate will have access to the latest technology, opportunities to grow professionally and technically, as well as supporting training resources available to them.

BlueCrest is committed to providing an inclusive environment for its workforce. As an employer, we provide equal opportunities to all people regardless of their gender, marital or civil partnership status, race, religion or ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation or nationality.

## About BlueCrest Capital Management

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: BlueCrest Capital Management is a global alternative asset manager, originally focused on fixed income macro trading, that now manages significant institutional assets across diversified strategies, primarily for its partners and employees after closing to external investors.
- **Entity Type**: Private (limited liability partnership)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (with offices in Geneva, Jersey, Dubai, New York, Miami, and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Michael Platt and William Reeves (now retired)

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Investment & Asset Management (Hedge Funds)
- Target customers: Institutional investors (historically); currently focused on managing internal capital (partners and employees)
- Mission/purpose: Not publicly stated; the firm prioritizes partner-aligned investing and technology-driven trading.

## Products & Services
- **Multi-Strategy Investment Funds**: BlueCrest manages internal funds across fixed income macro, systematic trading, rates, equity index volatility arbitrage, emerging markets, and other strategies.
- **Private Wealth Services**: Select portfolio administration and wealth management offerings for a limited client base.
- **Technology & Quantitative Platforms**: In-house development of trading infrastructure, AI/ML models, cloud platforms, and quantitative research tools to support proprietary trading.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private partnership)
- **Key Metric**: At its peak in 2013, BlueCrest had US$35.3 billion in global assets under management. Annual revenue is estimated between $13.4 million (Apollo estimate) and $100–500 million (Glassdoor self-reported). The higher range is more credible given the scale of the firm.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The firm is fully owned and controlled by its principals. No external institutional investors currently.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring (10+ open roles as of mid-2026, +25% monthly job posting growth); increasing investment in AI/cloud engineering; expansion of technology stack (Python, Kubernetes, Azure, Snowflake, Hugging Face, OpenAI).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Talent Concentration**: Deep bench of alumni from top investment banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, UBS, Citi, Deutsche Bank, etc.) – 70 former Goldman Sachs employees currently at BlueCrest.
- **Proprietary Technology**: Heavy internal tech investment with 91+ tools in stack, including AI, ML, cloud-native infrastructure, and quantitative platforms.
- **Partner-Governed Structure**: Principals control the firm, aligning incentives and enabling long-term, high-risk strategies without external investor pressure.
- **Global Presence**: Offices across major financial hubs (London, New York, Singapore, Geneva, Jersey, Dubai, Miami) providing 24/7 trading and operational coverage.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI Transformation**: BlueCrest is actively hiring for AI Integration Lead, AI Cloud Platform Engineer, and AI Adoption SME roles, signaling a push to embed machine learning and LLMs across trading, risk, and operations.
- **Technology Modernization**: Moving to cloud-native infrastructure (Azure, Kubernetes, Snowflake) and modern UI frameworks (Angular, React).
- **Internal Capital Growth**: After returning external capital in 2015–2016, the firm focuses on growing the internal fund for partners and employees.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “friendly team, nice people” by some employees on Glassdoor. The firm emphasizes intellectual rigor and risk-taking in trading.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid/office-based in major financial centers. Offices in London (Victoria/Belgravia), New York, Singapore, etc.
- **Benefits & Perks**: Positive reviews mention good benefits and lunch provided. Compensation is competitive (industry-standard for hedge funds).
- **Engineering Culture**: Strong emphasis on quantitative development, AI/ML, and modern infrastructure. Developers work directly with traders and quants.
- **Glassdoor Ratings**: 3.0 out of 5 stars (based on 130 reviews); 46% would recommend to a friend; 52% approve of CEO. Reviews are mixed – some cite average interview difficulty (3/5) and decent work/life balance.

## Sources
1. [Greenhouse Jobs Page](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/bluecrestcapitalmanagement)
2. [Apollo.io Company Profile](https://apollo.io) – revenue/employee data (note: may contain inaccuracies)
3. [LinkedIn Company Page](https://uk.linkedin.com/company/bluecrest-capital-management-llp)
4. [Glassdoor Overview](https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-BlueCrest-Capital-Management-EI_IE305621.11,39.htm)
5. [FCA Final Notice – BlueCrest Capital Management (UK) LLP (Oct 2025)](https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/final-notices/bluecrest-capital-management-2025.pdf)
6. [Indeed Company Profile](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Bluecrest-Capital-Management)

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