Senior Linux Platform Engineer — Cloud & Automation

BlueCrest Capital Management; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

BlueCrest Capital Management in London seeks an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, engineer and maintain our multi-tenant Linux and cloud platforms. You will support both on-premise and public cloud environments, ensuring low-latency, resilient services for trading and core platforms.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on expertise with SUSE/RHEL, containerization, automation (Terraform/Ansible) and cross-platform integration, thriving in a fast-paced enterprise trading setting and

Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise Linux distributions (SLES/RHEL) in dynamic, low-latency, trading environments.
• Strong automation and orchestration across Linux and Windows integrations.
• Hands-on with container platforms (Docker/Kubernetes) and observability tooling (Prometheus).
• Automation using Terraform, Terragrunt, Cloud-Init and Ansible in hybrid clouds.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer and support multi-tenant private/public cloud initiatives.
• Maintain Linux estate and automation services across On-Prem, Colo and Public Cloud.
• Deliver robust, scalable infrastructure supporting trading workflows and low latency needs.
• Collaborate with global teams; implement new automation to improve service delivery.

Skills

Linux administration

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Container runtimes

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

GitOps

AD/Kerberos integration

Terraform

Terragrunt

Cloud-Init

Ansible

Python/Bash scripting

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Cloud-Init

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

BlueCrest Capital Management in London seeks an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to design, engineer and maintain our multi-tenant Linux and cloud platforms. You will support both on-premise and public cloud environments, ensuring low-latency, resilient services for trading and core platforms.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on expertise with SUSE/RHEL, containerization, automation (Terraform/Ansible) and cross-platform integration, thriving in a fast-paced enterprise trading setting and