Linux Engineer - Up to £200k + Industry Leading Bonus - Elite FinTech Firm

JR United Kingdom; Brighton; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm seeks a Linux Engineer in Brighton offering up to £200k salary plus bonuses. Join a passionate tech team focused on innovative solutions and cutting-edge technology, optimising large-scale infrastructures and driving exciting greenfield projects. Ideal candidates should have significant systems engineering experience and a strong passion for learning.

Benefits

Flexible hours/work options

Cutting-edge technology

Small team size with impact

Exciting greenfield projects

Qualifications

• Experience in high-availability & low-latency environments.
• 4+ years in Linux systems engineering.
• Strong automation experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimise Linux infrastructure on HPC Clusters.
• Architect new Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Automate processes with Python and configuration tools.

Skills

Systems Engineering

Scripting

Automation

Interest in DevOps

Tools

Python

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

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Linux Engineer - Up to £200k + Industry Leading Bonus - Elite FinTech Firm, brighton

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Client:

Hunter Bond

Location:

brighton, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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Yes

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Posted:

06.06.2025

Expiry Date:

21.07.2025

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Job Description:

Job title: Linux Engineer

Client: Elite FinTech Firm - Award winning, tech focused run by passionate Computer Scientists

Experience Level: 4+ Years

Salary: Up to £200k + Industry Leading Bonus

My client are looking for a highly-talented Linux Engineer to work in one of their systems teams. They have an unlimited budget for optimising their infrastructure

You'll likely work on all of the below but spend most of your time in one main area:

• Build and optimise next gen Linux infrastructure on a HPC Cluster with over 1PB memory, 20K GPUs and 100k CPUs
• Architecting a brand new on premise kubernetes infrastructure
• Working in their high performance DevOps function (building and optimising CI/CD pipelines etc.!)
• A brand new observability platform dealing with over 6 million requests per second and working on tracing and OpenTelemetry (as well as exploring ML for Observability)
• Automate anything and everything with Python & config tools

This is one of the best opportunities for a passionate Linux infrastructure enthusiast out there working on the newest and best tech around with a chance to make your mark on a growing organsiation

Skills/Experience

• Systems Engineering experience in a high-availability &/or low-latency environment
• Strong experience with scripting/automation is highly preferred (Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Exposure to on premise storage/Bare Metal infrastructure
• Interest in DevOps
• My client have historically hired just passionate techies who are willing to learn so please also apply if you fit this!

Sells

• Flexible hours/work options
• The chance to work with the most cutting-edge technology in the Industry
• Technologists only report to technologists
• Techies treated as top commodity so ‘spoiled’
• Small team size in a growing company so an ability to make a significant impact
• Constantly exciting greenfield projects in an ever-evolving environment