Platform Desktop Engineer: Linux Systems & Automation

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch provided

Barista bar

30 days annual leave

9% pension contributions

Healthcare and life assurance

Job summary

G-Research is seeking a Platform Desktop Engineer in London to own and operate the Linux image build pipeline and provisioning tooling. You will work with OpenStack and Ironic to scale bare metal and VM provisioning, while maintaining security, monitoring, and incident response across the estate.

You will collaborate with Linux Engineering, Security and Infrastructure teams, contributing to capacity planning and tooling improvements in a collaborative environment that values thoughtful action

Qualifications

• Strong Linux administration skills and networking knowledge.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines for OS image creation.
• Python scripting with safe changes to internal tooling.
• Experience with OpenStack and Ironic for bare metal and VM provisioning at scale.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the 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, vulnerability remediation and patching.
• Coordinate changes with testing, staged rollouts and rollback.
• Monitor estate health and maintain dashboards.

Skills

Linux administration

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

OpenStack

Ironic

Troubleshooting

Monitoring and dashboards

Security best practices

Hardware provisioning

Communication

Tools

Jenkins

Packer

Dagger

Bash

OpenStack

Ironic

Job description

G-Research is seeking a Platform Desktop Engineer in London to own and operate the Linux image build pipeline and provisioning tooling. You will work with OpenStack and Ironic to scale bare metal and VM provisioning, while maintaining security, monitoring, and incident response across the estate.

You will collaborate with Linux Engineering, Security and Infrastructure teams, contributing to capacity planning and tooling improvements in a collaborative environment that values thoughtful action