Join a world-leading quantitative trading and financial technology firm operating at the forefront of global markets. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and sophisticated trading infrastructure, the firm provides liquidity across thousands of financial instruments and trading venues worldwide.
As part of a highly skilled global engineering team, you will play a critical role in designing, building, and supporting the Linux-based infrastructure that powers a low-latency, high-performance trading platform operating across international datacentres and offices.
This is an opportunity to work on mission-critical systems where performance, reliability, automation, and scale are paramount.
Day-to-day:
- Analyse, diagnose, and resolve complex Linux server issues
- Design, build, deploy, and maintain automated infrastructure solutions
- Develop and maintain system packages, scripts, and deployment tooling
- Identify opportunities to reduce latency and improve platform efficiency
- Manage infrastructure changes, upgrades, and configuration management activities
- Collaborate with internal technology teams and external vendors to deliver optimal solutions
- Contribute to long-term infrastructure strategy, scalability planning, and capacity management
- Drive automation initiatives to improve operational efficiency and reliability
Requirements:
- Experience administering Linux/Unix environments
- Strong Linux systems engineering and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with kernel tuning and performance optimisation
- Strong understanding of networking protocols and services
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible
- Proficiency with Git-based workflows
- Strong scripting skills, preferably Python
- Experience with server hardware and BIOS configuration
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
(Desirable Experience)
- MySQL and/or PostgreSQL
- HTCondor or large-scale compute cluster environments
- TeamCity, Keycloak, and Atlassian toolsets
- Exposure to low-latency, high-performance, or trading environments