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

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

Job summary

An elite FinTech firm in Oxford seeks a passionate Linux Engineer with 4+ years of experience. This role involves optimizing a vast Linux infrastructure on a high-performance computing cluster, architecting Kubernetes, and driving CI/CD pipelines. The company offers flexible work options and cutting-edge technology to ensure impactful contributions in a growing team.

Benefits

Flexible hours/work options

Cutting-edge technology

Small team size for significant impact

Exciting greenfield projects

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Systems Engineering.
• Strong scripting skills, especially in Python.
• Experience in high-availability or low-latency environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize next-gen Linux infrastructure on HPC clusters.
• Architect a new on-premise 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, oxford district

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Client:

Hunter Bond

Location:

oxford district, 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