Infrastructure & Support

Description

Senior Linux Systems Engineer– Linux – Institution FX Brokerage - London. Technology driven FX brokerage, with fifteen offices globally, employing 2500 staff across these locations seeks to hire a Senior Linux Systems Engineer as part of their growth. The organisation is a highly profitable traditional financial trading organisation offering sophisticated electronic trading solutions. 

The Senior Linux Systems Engineer will be responsible for:

• Leading projects during 2024 and beyond - Automation and Cloud AWS based projects. 
• Become technical authority across companies underlying IT infrastructure. 
• Maintaining and supporting environments of both servers and 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.

Senior Linux Systems Engineer skill requirements:

• A degree in a STEM related subject.
• 5 + years commercial systems engineering - Systems Administration. 
• Proven Linux experience. 
• Scripting experience - Python. 
• AWS experience. 
• Networking experience. 
• Terraform experience. 
• FIX Protocol. 

Desirable Skills for the Senior Linux Systems Engineer

• Ansible.
• Kubernetes.
• Nagios.
• Puppet.
• Chef.
• GIT.
  

This is a fantastic opportunity for a Senior Linux Systems Engineer to join an industry leading FX Brokerage, offering high performance on premise and SaaS based solutions for their clients to utilise. The Senior Linux Systems Engineer benefits package: Competitive bonus, profit share scheme, share options, 26 days holiday, private medical, pension, life insurance, wellness package.