Unix/Linux Systems Engineer | Quant Trading | Hong Kong

Tribus; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Tribus in Hong Kong is seeking Unix/Linux Systems Engineer roles focused on high-performance infrastructure for quantitative trading. You will work on bare-metal Linux, on-prem Kubernetes, and production platforms.

Responsibilities include designing, operating and automating Linux systems, networks, and latency-sensitive pipelines using Rancher, Cilium, ArgoCD, Terraform and GitHub Actions. This role requires production-grade reliability mindset and strong debugging skills.

Qualifications

• Experience with bare-metal or physical server infrastructure.
• Strong Python and/or Bash scripting and automation.
• Networking fundamentals and troubleshooting.
• Production infrastructure and incident response.
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management.
• Monitoring, observability and performance troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate and improve production platforms in Linux environments.
• Build, administer and support high-performance Linux infrastructure for trading/research.
• Coordinate with teams on deployments, upgrades and automation tasks.

Skills

Bare-metal infrastructure

Python

Bash scripting

Networking

Production engineering

Automation

Monitoring

Tools

Rancher

Cilium

ArgoCD

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Job description

Unix/Linux Systems Engineer | Quant Trading | Hong Kong

We’re currently hiring across multiple infrastructure engineering positions with leading quantitative trading firms in Hong Kong.

These opportunities suit hands-on engineers who enjoy working close to Linux, physical infrastructure, networking and production systems. While the exact focus differs across each team, all three roles operate in highly technical, performance-sensitive environments where reliability and infrastructure quality are critical.

The Opportunities

Linux Systems Engineer – Bare Metal & Kubernetes

Work across large-scale bare-metal Linux infrastructure and on-prem Kubernetes environments. You’ll help design, operate and improve production platforms, with technologies including Rancher, Cilium, ArgoCD, Terraform and GitHub Actions.

Build, administer and support high-performance Linux infrastructure used across trading and research. The role combines day-to-day production engineering with server deployments, upgrades, automation, monitoring and platform improvements.

Work directly with the physical infrastructure underpinning latency-sensitive trading systems. You’ll cover Linux server deployment, OS and hardware optimisation, networking, automation, monitoring and production troubleshooting.

What We’re Looking For

Across the three positions, we’re interested in engineers with experience across:

• Bare-metal or physical server infrastructure
• Python and/or Bash scripting and automation
• Networking fundamentals and troubleshooting
• Production infrastructure and incident response
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management
• Monitoring, observability and performance troubleshooting

Depending on the role, experience with Kubernetes, Rancher, Cilium, ArgoCD, Terraform, Ansible, multicast networking, PTP, colocation or low-latency infrastructure will be particularly valuable.

Why Consider These Roles?

These are opportunities to move into or continue building a career within quantitative trading while remaining deeply hands-on technically. Prior trading experience is not essential across all of the opportunities; strong engineers from high-performance infrastructure and production environments are encouraged to apply.