Senior Linux Engineer - Trading House

ZipRecruiter; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech recruitment platform in London is seeking an experienced infrastructure engineer with deep expertise in Linux systems and over 15 years of experience. The successful candidate will play a key role in building a highly optimized infrastructure, focusing on performance and low latency. This contract role offers £600-£650 per day and hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or platform engineering in critical environments.
• Deep understanding of Unix/Linux systems engineering down to Kernel level.
• Strong systems design and optimisation skills.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in the build of a sophisticated infrastructure.
• Optimize systems for high performance and low latency.
• Implement automation and containerisation solutions.

Skills

Systems engineering experience

Unix/Linux systems engineering

Low latency tuning

Containerisation

Scripting in Shell, Bash, Python

Platform engineering

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

You will have deep knowledge of Linux build, integration, and engineering, with secondary expertise in one of high-performance computing, storage, or networking, as well as a strong understanding of contemporary containerised, infrastructure-as-code technologies, to play a key role in the build of a sophisticated, highly performant, and highly optimized infrastructure.

You should apply for this role if you are/have:

• 15+ years of systems, infrastructure, and/or platform engineering experience in financial markets or other critical environments
• Deep understanding of Unix/Linux systems engineering down to Kernel level, for high performance/low latency requirements
• Strong systems design and optimisation skills, including low latency tuning and/or GPU processing
• Experience with automation and/or containerisation using tools like Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Kubernetes, etc.
• Scripting experience in Shell, Bash, and Python; C++ is desirable but not required
• Platform engineering / site reliability engineering experience
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

This is a contract role paying £600-£650/day (dependent on experience), based in London, initially for six months. Hybrid working arrangements are available.