Platform Desktop Engineer: Linux Automation & Infra

Barlowe LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch provided

30 days annual leave

9% pension contributions

Informal dress code

Healthcare and life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Monthly company events

Job summary

G-Research in London is seeking a Platform Desktop Engineer to own the Linux image build, provisioning tooling and day-to-day health of desktops across the estate. You will contribute to CI/CD for OS image creation and work with OpenStack/Ironic for bare metal and VM provisioning at scale.

You will partner with Linux Engineering, Security and wider infra teams in a collaborative environment where ideas are valued and responsible automation is encouraged.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux administration, including package management, filesystems, permissions and networking.
• Troubleshooting experience across logs, CPU, memory, I/O and network performance.
• Experience with OpenStack and Ironic for bare metal and VM provisioning at scale.

Responsibilities

• Maintain OS image build pipeline using Dagger, Packer, Jenkins and Bash.
• Develop Python-based provisioning tooling across OpenStack and Ironic.
• Manage estate security, including certificate lifecycle and patching.
• Monitor estate health, dashboards and configuration issues.
• Provide user support and resolve incidents escalated from first line.
• Support joiner/mover/leaver processes with HR and hiring managers.
• Manage hardware provisioning and lifecycle, diagnostics and RMAs.
• Contribute to capacity planning across resources.
• Drive incident remediation to completion and escalate where needed.

Skills

Linux admin

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Security best practices

Monitoring dashboards

OpenStack

Ironic

Hardware provisioning

Incident management

Communication skills

Tools

BMC

Job description

G-Research in London is seeking a Platform Desktop Engineer to own the Linux image build, provisioning tooling and day-to-day health of desktops across the estate. You will contribute to CI/CD for OS image creation and work with OpenStack/Ironic for bare metal and VM provisioning at scale.

You will partner with Linux Engineering, Security and wider infra teams in a collaborative environment where ideas are valued and responsible automation is encouraged.