Lead Linux Platform Engineer – Trading

Overview

In this role you will lead on-premise Linux platform engineering for a fintech trading environment, shaping scalable server and network infrastructure. You will partner with a high-performance infrastructure team to automate deployments and manage production systems, ensuring reliable, secure platforms for equities, fixed income and FX trading. You will tackle complex incidents and drive change-management processes, balancing BAU with strategic project work. This opportunity offers exposure to cutting-edge tech in a calm, growth-focused culture with strong training and career progression.

Pay / Benefits

• excellent salary
• benefits package
• ongoing training
• structured career path
• London-based with hybrid 1 day in office per week

Responsibilities

• Manage on-premise platforms and hosted server architecture (Dell hardware, Linux/VMs)
• Oversee systems administration and automation to enable efficient deployment
• Troubleshoot, handle incident escalations and support production change management
• Blend project work with BAU tasks to improve platform stability and automation
• Lead automation initiatives for configuration management and standardization

Key requirements

• Unix/Linux experience
• Substantial experience deploying and managing Linux servers
• Experience managing virtual machines
• Knowledge of Rest APIs, Git, PKI and SSL certificates, RedHat/Fedora, DNS, Mail, LDAP and kernel-level debugging (desirable)
• Automation and configuration management experience (Ansible, Python, Puppet or similar)
• Scripting/coding experience

• Unix/Linux
• Cloud technology exposure
• Linux server deployment and VM management
• Virtual machines
• Rest APIs
• Git

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