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

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

Job summary

A leading FinTech firm is seeking a Linux Engineer with over 4 years of experience to optimize their infrastructure and work on cutting-edge technology projects. This role offers flexible hours, an innovative environment, and the chance to have a significant impact in a growing tech-focused organization.

Benefits

Flexible hours and work options

Opportunity to work with industry-leading technology

Direct reporting to other technologists

Valued and well-treated tech professionals

Significant impact in a small team

Exciting greenfield projects

Qualifications

• 4+ years of systems engineering experience.
• Strong scripting/automation skills are highly preferred.
• Experience with on-premise storage and Bare Metal infrastructure.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Systems engineering in high-availability environments

Scripting/automation skills in Python

Experience with Bare Metal infrastructure

Interest in DevOps

Tools

Ansible

Chef

Puppet

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

Client:

Hunter Bond

Location:

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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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.

You'll likely work on the following 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, focusing on tracing and OpenTelemetry, and exploring ML for Observability
• Automate processes using Python and configuration tools

This is an excellent opportunity for passionate Linux infrastructure enthusiasts 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
• We value passionate techies eager to learn, so please apply if you fit this description!

Benefits:

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