Description

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