Lead Linux Platform Engineer – Trading
Quant Capital
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
- 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
- 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
Reference: WJ-747_30159982