Hybrid Linux Systems Engineer - Trading Infra

Tower Research Capital; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working opportunities

Generous paid time off

Wellness programs and fitness benefits

Free meals and snacks

Job summary

Tower Research Capital is hiring for a senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer to support, maintain, and enhance a high-performance trading Linux environment in hybrid cloud settings. You will develop automation tools, manage core services, and collaborate with Cloud Architecture to optimize low-latency trading systems.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Linux ops experience, strong Bash/Python skills, and hands-on AWS knowledge, including EC2 and networking configurations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience maintaining and operating a complex Linux environment.
• Strong knowledge of Linux internals and OS principles.
• Server-side networking and protocols experience.
• Automation and monitoring tool development.
• Experience with Ansible for config management.
• Proficient in Python and Bash scripting.
• Understanding of CI/CD, source control, and automated deployment.
• Experience refining infrastructure automation for low-latency cloud platforms.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• Comfort using AI in day-to-day activities.
• Strong expertise in AWS compute, networking, and storage services for low-latency trading.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain, and enhance trading Linux infrastructure.
• Provide day-to-day support including emergency responses, troubleshooting, and performance issue resolution.
• Develop tools to automate provisioning, configuration, and monitoring of thousands of Linux servers.
• Manage DHCP, LDAP, DNS, and NFS for on-prem, hosted data centers and public clouds.
• Review designs and implement trading system enhancements in Cloud with the Cloud Architecture team.
• Improve performance, resilience, and observability of Cloud environments.
• Engage in rotational on-call schedule including early mornings and weekends.

Skills

Linux

Python

Bash

Ansible

CI/CD

Networking

AWS

Monitoring

Automation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

Job description

Tower Research Capital is hiring for a senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer to support, maintain, and enhance a high-performance trading Linux environment in hybrid cloud settings. You will develop automation tools, manage core services, and collaborate with Cloud Architecture to optimize low-latency trading systems.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years of Linux ops experience, strong Bash/Python skills, and hands-on AWS knowledge, including EC2 and networking configurations.