Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Managed Systems Operability

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading job platform in London seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to enhance server stability through automation. Responsibilities include contributing to CI/CD frameworks and resolving critical system issues. Ideal candidates have experience in Python, Linux systems, and automation tools. Strong collaborative skills are essential. Competitive package and opportunities for professional growth are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience programming in Python and good understanding of software development methodologies.
• Expertise in analyzing, diagnosing, and solving problems in a Linux/Unix production environment.
• Ability to build and maintain Linux systems through automation software.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to CI/CD frameworks and pipeline.
• Diagnose and resolve critical system issues.
• Enhance our monitoring and alerting solutions.

Skills

Programming in Python

Process automation experience

Analyzing and solving problems in Linux/Unix

Building and maintaining Linux systems

Collaborative teamwork

Tools

Salt

Chef

Jenkins

Ansible

Job description

Overview

Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Managed Systems Operability

Location: London

Business Area: Engineering and CTO

Ref #: 10043720

Description

As a Systems Operability Engineer, you will join a highly motivated, experienced and dynamic team that is responsible for providing automatic remediation solutions, stability efforts, and providing self service tooling to manage Bloomberg's server fleet. Our team provides a low-friction customer experience by providing tooling to combine Appliance and Datacenter server environments regardless of the underlying infrastructure. The team uses the latest automation technologies to reduce operational toil, improve the stability of our mission critical infrastructure services, and to facilitate maintenance of Bloomberg's server fleet at scale.

You'll work closely with Software Developers, Frontline teams, and other key stakeholders to ensure that we are aligned with business strategies and best practices.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our CI/CD frameworks and pipeline
• Draft process flow charts & procedures, perform capacity planning, and implement changes
• Diagnose and resolve critical system issues
• Continuously refine processes and procedures with a focus on standardization and automation.
• Enhance our monitoring and alerting solutions

Qualifications

• Experience programming in Python (or related) and a good understanding of software development methodologies, open source systems, and familiarity with Git repositories
• Process automation experience
• Expertise in analyzing, diagnosing, and solving problems in a Linux/Unix production environment
• Ability to build and maintain Linux systems through automation software (e.g. Salt, Chef, Jenkins, Ansible)
• Eagerness to work within a group and share knowledge

Nice to Have

• RHEL System Administrator level of competency
• Understanding of configuration management, orchestration, CI/CD, infrastructure monitoring and telemetry
• Experience using Agile (e.g. Kanban or Scrum)
• Familiarity with telemetry tools such as Splunk, Grafana
• Experience with Web frameworks (BENTO, REACT, Angular, DJANGO)