Linux Engineer

Location: London Salary: £60000.00 - £70000.00 per annum Type: Permanent

Linux Engineer - Permanent £60,000 - £70,000 - London, hybrid

An experienced Linux Engineer is required for a global financial service organisation who offer advanced trading solutions for asset management firms, insurance companies, hedge funds & more, helping these institutions lower overall trading costs & improve their investment performance. The company are pioneers in electronic trading, also specialising in low latency, high touch, & multi-asset trading & more. You will play a crucial part in a thriving business, who are eager to continue their success, supporting a fast-pace, dynamic, trading organisation.
All applicants should come from a strong financial service industry background.

The successful candidate will have a range of technical knowledge & be able to add value around scripting, low balancing network infrastructure & an expert around installation, configuration, & troubleshooting. The successful candidate will easily demonstrate their Enterprise Linux experience with expertise across Red Hat, Oracle, CentOS.

***This position involved weekend work per On-call Rota***

The role:

  • Full life-cycle management of Unix systems
  • Coordinate department activities using Jira & ServiceNow
  • Configuration management & uniform deployment
  • Proactively monitor the Unix estate & suggest opportunities to improve the process, technologies, & overall stability.
  • Auditing & implementing remediation actions, ensuring they comply with IT Governance policies & procedures.


Skills & requirements:

  • Proficient working experience/knowledge of Linux operating systems including configurations, installation, & troubleshooting.
  • Previous experience managing F5 load balancers.
  • Previous experience of diagnosing, trouble shooting & resolving technical issues
  • TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP, SNMP
  • LAN/WAN (desirable)
  • Enterprise Linux experience - Oracle, CentOS, Red Hat
  • Scripting/Programming experience (within Ansible, Python, Java, Perl.)
  • IaC - Infrastructure as code.
  • DHCP, PXE, Satellite, SpaceWalk.


Please get in touch - jenna@pioneer-search.com

Linux Engineer - Permanent £60,000 - £70,000 - London, hybrid.