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

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

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm in Crawley is looking for a passionate Linux Engineer with expertise in building high-performance infrastructures. This role offers an unlimited budget for infrastructure optimization, providing opportunities to work with advanced technologies like Kubernetes and observability platforms while being part of a dynamic and innovative team.

Benefits

Flexible hours and work options

Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology

Valued and respected team culture

Significant impact in a small team

Greenfield projects in an evolving environment

Qualifications

• 4+ years' experience in systems engineering.
• Strong automation and scripting capabilities.
• Motivated to learn and grow in DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize next-gen Linux infrastructure.
• Architect on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure.
• Automate processes using Python and configuration tools.

Skills

Systems engineering experience in high-availability and/or low-latency environments

Strong scripting/automation skills

Exposure to on-premise storage

Interest in DevOps

Tools

Python

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

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

Client: Hunter Bond

Location: Crawley, West Sussex, 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 their systems team. They have an unlimited budget for optimizing their infrastructure.

Key responsibilities include:

• Build and optimize next-gen Linux infrastructure on a 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)
• Exposure to on-premise storage and Bare Metal infrastructure
• Interest in DevOps
• Passionate tech enthusiasts willing to learn are encouraged to apply!

Benefits:

• Flexible hours and work options
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology
• Technologists report directly to other technologists
• Techies are valued highly and well-treated
• Small team size allows for significant impact
• Greenfield projects in an evolving environment