Linux Engineer (Remote) - Banking & Finance

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Join a fast-growing proprietary trading group with deep experience in derivatives markets across global financial exchanges, raising international benchmarks for excellence in the finance industry. The organization recruits talented people from top universities and values quick-witted analysis, independent judgment, intellectual curiosity, and a proven record of hard work and success.

A newly created opportunity exists for a Linux Infrastructure Engineer to join the global infrastructure function of a proprietary trading firm supporting trading and research teams across EMEA, APAC, and the US. The ideal candidate will work across the systems underpinning the trading environment, with a strong Linux focus, getting close to the operating system, working with automation, and improving the performance and reliability of production infrastructure.

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Responsibilities:

• Support and maintain Linux infrastructure across a global trading environment
• Work with development teams to deploy, test and optimise infrastructure
• Tune Linux systems to improve performance and reliability
• Work at kernel and operating-system level to investigate performance issues
• Build and improve infrastructure automation using Ansible
• Support infrastructure running across global colocation environments
• Troubleshoot complex Linux and infrastructure issues
• Assist with testing and tuning systems supporting trading workloads
• Contribute to infrastructure projects across the firm's global environment
• Support a smaller Windows footprint where required

Skills/Must Have:

• Strong Linux systems administration / engineering experience
• Good understanding of Linux internals and operating-system fundamentals
• Exposure to Linux kernel-level troubleshooting or performance tuning
• Strong Ansible automation experience
• Experience supporting production infrastructure
• Good scripting and automation mindset
• Experience working with development or software engineering teams
• Comfortable troubleshooting systems across hardware, operating system and application layers
• Experience within trading, financial services, HPC or another performance-sensitive environment would be highly beneficial

Salary:

• Up to £85,000 basic salary per annum