Senior Linux Engineer

Maven; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A market-leading trading firm located in Greater London is seeking a talented Linux Engineer to manage and maintain their extensive Linux server estate. You will design, build, and support medium-sized Linux environments while ensuring high performance and stability. The role emphasizes simplification and automation using tools like Python and Ansible. Ideal candidates should be adept at collaborating with globally distributed teams and possess experience in containerization techniques. A dynamic work atmosphere with competitive compensation and excellent benefits is offered.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Annual discretionary bonus

Catered meals

25 days' annual leave

Private healthcare

Monthly company events

Private gym access

Qualifications

• Proven track record designing and supporting medium-sized Linux environments.
• Experience in automation using Python and Ansible.
• Familiarity with distributed data storage platforms like NFS and S3.

Responsibilities

• Manage deployment and maintenance of the Linux server estate.
• Monitor infrastructure for faults and performance degradation.
• Collaborate with trading teams to address technical issues.

Skills

Linux environment design

Automation with Python

Containerization techniques

Communication across teams

Tools

Ansible

Kubernetes

Job description

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm allocating internal capital across discretionary, systematic, and market‑making strategies. Our collective expertise spans traders, engineers, and technologists, unified by an unwavering dedication to enhance our efficiency as a premier liquidity provider for globally listed derivatives.

Maven has a culture that is relaxed and informal but highly rewarding of strong performance; We have offices in London, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, New York and Chicago. Our Infrastructure team is a set of broad‑minded technologists, who focus on continuously improving the end‑to‑end resiliency, scalability, visibility and supportability of Maven's trading systems.

The Team and the Role

The Linux Engineering team is responsible for the deployment, maintenance and stability of the Linux server estate at Maven. The Linux estate spans 10 datacentres between Europe and the US and supports all trading applications. Our environment consists of both bare‑metal deployments and containers supported in an expanding set of Kubernetes clusters all running on prem. The team sits in Chicago and London and covers the European and US market hours.

We proactively monitor our infrastructure for faults and performance degradation, translate technical issues to our trading teams, design and test new hardware, kernels and operating systems, manage our centralised storage arrays that support our data pipelines, build and maintain databases and keep on top of updates in the Linux open source community. We use a lot of common open‑source tooling to gather as much data from our platform as we can and we give ourselves time to properly dive into problems to make sure we have as clear a picture as possible.

What are we looking for:

• Proven track record designing, building and supporting medium‑sized Linux environments distributed around the globe with colleagues distributed geographically (RHEL and Debian)
• A drive for simplification, automation and self‑service (ideally using python and ansible)
• A desire to share and demonstrate work, techniques and tools to a broad audience
• Exposure to containerisation/virtualisation techniques
• Experience of running and supporting large distributed data storage platforms would be a bonus. Knowledge of NFS, S3, iscsi, TCP over NVME etc
• Pragmatism - experience communicating and coordinating change across physically and technically diverse teams
• Measures rather than guesses - makes evidence backed decision and prefers the scientific method

What we can offer you:

• Competitive compensation
• Annual discretionary bonus
• Fully catered breakfast, lunch and snacks.
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Informal dress code
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Monthly company events
• Private Gym

Maven is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture

Maven is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for our employees. It is crucial for us to understand the demographics of our candidate pool to measure our recruitment practices. There is no requirement for any candidate to answer our demographic questions. For candidates who complete the questionnaire, their data will be anonymised and used only in the aggregate to inform our attraction strategy. Maven is an equal opportunity employer and this data will be used for opportunity monitoring purposes.