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

JR United Kingdom; Coventry; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm in Coventry is seeking a passionate Linux Engineer with 4+ years of experience. You will build an advanced Linux infrastructure and lead exciting greenfield projects while enjoying flexible work options in a small, tech-focused team.

Benefits

Flexible hours and work options

Work with industry-leading technology

Highly valued tech professionals

Opportunity for a significant impact

Exciting greenfield projects

Qualifications

• Experience in high-availability/low-latency environments (4+ years).
• Strong scripting/automation skills preferred (Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet).
• Experience with bare-metal infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize Linux infrastructure on an HPC Cluster.
• Architect a new on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Develop a new observability platform handling millions of requests.

Skills

Systems engineering

Scripting

Automation

Interest in DevOps

Job description

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

Client: Hunter Bond

Location: Coventry, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Views: 2

Posted: 06.06.2025

Expiry Date: 21.07.2025

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 is looking for a highly talented Linux Engineer to work in one of their systems teams. They have an unlimited budget for optimizing their infrastructure.

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

• Build and optimize next-gen Linux infrastructure on an HPC Cluster with over 1PB memory, 20K GPUs, and 100k CPUs
• Architecting a new on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure
• Working in their high-performance DevOps team (building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines)
• Developing a new observability platform handling over 6 million requests per second, working on tracing and OpenTelemetry, and exploring ML for Observability
• Automate processes using Python and configuration tools

This is an excellent opportunity for a passionate Linux infrastructure enthusiast to work with cutting-edge technology and make a significant impact in a growing organization.

Skills/Experience:

• Systems engineering experience in high-availability and/or low-latency environments
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, Ansible, Chef, Puppet) are highly preferred
• Experience with on-premise storage and bare-metal infrastructure
• Interest in DevOps
• Passionate techies willing to learn are encouraged to apply!

Selling points:

• Flexible hours and work options
• Work with industry-leading technology
• Technologists report to technologists
• Tech professionals are highly valued and well-treated
• Small team in a growing company allows for significant impact
• Exciting greenfield projects in an evolving environment