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Senior Linux Platform Engineer

London
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C913CB04246B62A866ABFB9EA2C4E545
Posted 1 week ago

OverviewI am currently working with Hedge fund that is looking for mid-level Linux Systems Engineer. This role is part of a Storage Engineering team supporting a new HPC environment, with a focus on platform integration, compliance testing, and process documentation to ensure operational and security standards are met.

Required Qualifications

5+ years Linux engineering (RHEL/Ubuntu) with strong Bash plus Python or Go.

Deep AWS experience: EC2, AMI creation, block-device mapping, Launch Templates, Auto Scaling Groups, EBS, and encryption.

Experience with Packer for image baking and Ansible for idempotent configuration.

Familiarity with cloud-init/user-data, immutable server principles, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins).

Experience with configuration management, monitoring, and observability tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Victoria Metrics/Logs).

Practical security hardening skills (CIS benchmarks, SSH hardening, KMS, SSM Session Manager).

Preferred Qualifications

2+ years experience with enterprise storage technologies.

Linux certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, or equivalent).

Experience with containerized storage solutions (Docker volumes, Kubernetes persistent volumes).

Familiarity with cloud storage services (AWS S3).

Exposure to virtualization technologies (VMware) and performance/network troubleshooting.

Knowledge of advanced AMI tooling and compliance scanning (EC2 Image Builder, Testinfra/Molecule, Trivy, InSpec).

Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment typeContract

Job functionInformation Technology

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