Infrastructure & Support

Description

Linux Support Engineer– Linux – Scripting – Financial Trading platform - London. Interviews are being conducted via remote video conferencing. Opportunity to work on interesting automation / DevOps projects. Miller Maxwell is assisting a market leading electronic trading organisation working across both buy-side and sell-side environments. They seek an experienced Linux Support Engineer to join their infrastructure and engineering team. The organisation is a highly profitable traditional financial trading organisation offering sophisticated electronic trading environment to their experienced team.

The Linux Support Engineer will be responsible for:

• Provide software support for real-time trading applications. 
• Maintaining and supporting environments of both servers and client applications.
• Adopting and implementing new technologies to improve and automate manual tasks.
• Resolve complex systems and operational issues in a time pressured environment.
• Work within a split BAU and project-based environment.
• Partner with internal QA and Development teams to automate tasks.
• Monitor systems and performance and automated tasks.
• Keeping the service desk fully informed of changes and tests to be carried out once systems changes have been deployed
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records

Linux Support Engineer skill requirements:

• A degree in a STEM related subject.
• 3 years commercial software - technical support experience within the financial domain.
• Knowledge managing and working with Linux is essential.
• Scripting experience - Shell - Bash or Python. 
• Knowledge of SQL Server - desirable

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Linux Support Engineer to join an industry leading provider of real-time trading systems who are rapidly expanding due to the great success of their products. The Linux Support Engineer will be working in state-of-the-art offices in the heart of the city of London for a company offering a highly competitive bonus scheme and benefits package.