Senior Linux Engineer - Trading House. A financial trading house is optimising their Linux infrastructure and are looking for a highly experienced Linux Engineer to play a key role in systems engineering and integration for the infrastructure design, build and implementing.

You will deep knowledge of Linux build, integration, and engineering, with secondary expertise in one of high-performance computing, storage, or networking, as well as a strong understanding contemporary containerised, infrastructure-as-code technologies, to play a key role in the build of a sophisticated, highly performant, and highly optimized infrastructure.

You should apply for this role if you are/have:

• 15+ years systems, infrastructure and/or platform engineering in financial markets or other critical environments
• Deep understanding of Unix/Linux systems engineering to Kernel level, for high performance/low latency requirements
• Strong systems design and optimisation, low latency turning and/or GPU processing
• Strong automation and/or containerisation in in Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef, Kubernetes and similar tools
• Scripting experience in Shell, Bash, and Python; C++ desirable but not required
• Platform engineering / site reliability engineering experience preferred
• Degree educated or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related

This is a £600-£650/day contract role (dependent on experience), based London, initially for six months. Hybrid working.