Linux Engineer
Linux Engineer
Our client is a leading quantitative hedge fund seeking a Linux Engineer in London to join their global infrastructure team. Working with the application and support teams you will be responsible for engineering the Linux platform with a strong focus on automation.
You will:
- Engineer and operate the Linux platform across a rapidly growing global estate
- Build and evolve automation, tooling and standards for provisioning, configuration management and platform life cycle operations
- Develop and maintain configuration management and orchestration systems such as Ansible, Puppet and Chef
- Improve platform observability using monitoring and logging tooling, and drive operational readiness through measurable reliability
- Troubleshoot complex performance and stability issues across OS, networking, and application interfaces
- Own and improve build and release workflows (packaging, repositories, compiling and customising open-source components
Your present skill set:
- Linux expertise (preferably RedHat)
- Experience engineering and managing Linux platforms optimised for latency‑sensitive workloads
- Proven track record in architecting and operating automation and configuration management solutions using tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef
- Knowledge of observability monitoring tools
- Programming skills in Python and Bash
- Strong understanding of the server network stack and core protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP, IGMP) across LAN/WAN environments
- Experience with build/release management
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