Linux System Administrator - London, United Kingdom - Radley James

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    **OFFERING UP TO £160K TOTAL COMPENSATION**

    Senior Systems Engineer:

    A proprietary trading firm is seeking a systems engineer to join their infrastructure team to help build out and maintain their cutting-edge low-latency infrastructure, operating systems, and automation software.

    Responsibilities:

    • Maintain and build out Linux infrastructure
    • Implement and support performance monitoring and fault monitoring systems
    • Install, compile, package, and upgrade software and operating system components
    • Work alongside development, hardware, and trading teams to create reliable server builds
    • Complete performance tuning for operating systems, kernels, and server hardware

    Requirements:

    • Strong experience managing and troubleshooting Linux-based environments
    • Experience working in virtualized environments
    • Exposure to network devices and storage
    • Strong experience with troubleshooting, performance tuning, and optimizing production systems
    • Experience using deployment and automation tools such as Ansible, Airflow, and Jenkins
    • Knowledge of containerization technologies
    • Experience with research clusters and implementing tools such as Slurm workload manager.