Unix/Linux Systems Engineer | Systematic Trading | Sydney Australia

Tribus; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Tribus in Sydney, Australia is hiring for Unix/Linux Systems Engineers focused on high-performance infrastructure. You will work across bare-metal Linux, on-prem Kubernetes, and production platforms, ensuring reliability and low-latency operations in a trading environment.

The roles involve hands-on work with Linux servers, networking and infrastructure automation, plus monitoring and incident response in a fast-paced, technical team.

Qualifications

• Experience with bare-metal Linux, automation and on-prem environments.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and/or Bash.
• Solid networking fundamentals and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience building and operating production infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate and improve production Linux platforms.
• Deploy, manage and optimize high-performance infrastructure.
• Automate deployments, monitoring and incident response.
• Work closely with teams supporting latency-sensitive trading systems.

Skills

Bare-metal infrastructure

Python Bash scripting

Networking fundamentals

Production infrastructure

Infrastructure automation

Monitoring observability

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

ArgoCD

Rancher

Cilium

Job description

Unix/Linux Systems Engineer | Systematic Trading | Sydney Australia

We're currently hiring across multiple infrastructure engineering positions with leading quantitative trading firms in Sydney.

These opportunities suit hands-on engineers who enjoy working close to Linux, physical infrastructure, networking and production systems. While the exact focus differs across each team, all three roles operate in highly technical, performance-sensitive environments where reliability and infrastructure quality are critical.

The Opportunities

Linux Systems Engineer - Bare Metal & Kubernetes

Work across large-scale bare-metal Linux infrastructure and on-prem Kubernetes environments. You'll help design, operate and improve production platforms, with technologies including Rancher, Cilium, ArgoCD, Terraform and GitHub Actions.

Build, administer and support high-performance Linux infrastructure used across trading and research. The role combines day-to-day production engineering with server deployments, upgrades, automation, monitoring and platform improvements.

Work directly with the physical infrastructure underpinning latency-sensitive trading systems. You'll cover Linux server deployment, OS and hardware optimisation, networking, automation, monitoring and production troubleshooting.

What We’re Looking For

Across the three positions, we're interested in engineers with experience across:

• Bare-metal or physical server infrastructure
• Python and/or Bash scripting and automation
• Networking fundamentals and troubleshooting
• Production infrastructure and incident response
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management
• Monitoring, observability and performance troubleshooting

Depending on the role, experience with Kubernetes, Rancher, Cilium, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, multicast networking, PTP, colocation or low-latency infrastructure will be particularly valuable.

Why Consider These Roles?

These are opportunities to move into or continue building a career within quantitative trading while remaining deeply hands-on technically. Prior trading experience is not essential across all of the opportunities; strong engineers from high-performance infrastructure and production environments are encouraged to apply.