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

JR United Kingdom; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech firm in Nottingham seeks an experienced Linux Engineer with a passion for innovative technology and automation. You will play a key role in optimizing advanced infrastructure and developing solutions within a strong DevOps culture, alongside fellow tech enthusiasts.

Benefits

Flexible hours and work options

Opportunity to work with industry-leading technology

Tech-focused environment

Small team with significant impact potential

Greenfield projects

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in systems engineering.
• Experience in high-availability and low-latency environments.
• Passionate and eager to learn.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Systems engineering

Strong scripting

Automation skills

Interest in DevOps

Tools

Python

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

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

Client: Hunter Bond

Location: Nottingham, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

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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.

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, focusing on tracing and OpenTelemetry, and exploring ML for Observability
• Automating processes using Python and configuration tools

This role offers 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 required:

• 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 techies willing to learn are encouraged to apply!

Benefits:

• Flexible hours and work options
• Opportunity to work with industry-leading technology
• Technologists report to technologists
• Tech-focused environment where techies are valued highly
• Small team with significant impact potential
• Greenfield projects in an evolving environment