Linux Platform Engineer- Fintech

Overview

In this role, you will manage and evolve a global CentOS/Linux platform across private and public clouds for a high-availability SaaS fintech service. You’ll partner with platform architects to design secure infrastructure, lead incident response, and drive production-ready automation and new tech adoption. The role offers a fast-paced, collaborative environment with opportunities to influence architecture and tooling. You’ll work to scale systems while embracing open source innovations to improve performance and reliability.

Pay / Benefits

• excellent salary and benefits package
• ongoing training
• structured career path

Responsibilities

• Manage and engineer a global CentOS/Linux platform estate across private and public clouds
• Maintain and optimize hosted server architecture on Dell hardware; collaborate to architect separation of server infrastructure
• Troubleshoot issues and handle incident escalations, promoting production change management
• Evaluate and prototype open source solutions; evangelize and shape the architecture
• Leverage automation and configuration management tooling to manage hosts and deployments
• Support multi-cloud strategies with GCP and potential AWS adoption
• Monitor and ensure system performance and reliability in a high-traffic SaaS environment
• Assist in backups, DNS, mail, PTP, and basic network troubleshooting
• Ensure security and maintenance practices align with production requirements

Key requirements

• System administration of RedHat Linux / CentOS
• Server hardware architecture
• VMware, KVM or oVirt
• Managing hosts via Satellite, Foreman, Puppet, Chef and Ansible
• Disk interfaces and storage concepts (NFS, iSCSI, RAID)
• DNS, Mail, PTP, backups
• GCP and/or AWS compute services
• Scripting in Python and Bash
• Monitoring tools (Collectd, Nagios, Graphite, Grafana)
• TCP/IP and basic network troubleshooting
• Basic NAT and firewall concepts

• Analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Incident management under pressure
• Open-source evangelism and collaboration
• CentOS/RedHat administration
• Cloud platforms: Google Cloud Platform, AWS
• Virtualization: VMware, KVM, oVirt

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