Unix Engineer

Location:

Glasgow (preferred) or Newcastle | Hybrid

We're looking for a highly technical UNIX Engineer to join a core Infrastructure Engineering team supporting a large-scale enterprise environment within the financial services sector.#

• Develop and enhance automation for large-scale Linux patching, OS upgrades, and infrastructure maintenance.
• Build orchestration components using Python
  , Ansible
  , and Apache Airflow
  .
• Create robust pre-checks, post-change validations, and automation workflows to improve reliability and deployment speed.
• Integrate monitoring and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki
  , and related tooling.
• Support automation across Linux platforms, with exposure to load balancers and virtualisation technologies.
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve infrastructure resilience and operational efficiency.
• Proficiency in Python and Ansible
  .
• Experience with automation and orchestration tools (Apache Airflow desirable).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, protocols, file systems, and low-level UNIX concepts.
• Comfortable working at the command line and troubleshooting complex infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Loki is advantageous.
• Financial services experience is beneficial but not essential.

• Glasgow is the preferred location, with some travel to the London client site during onboarding (travel covered where applicable). Newcastle-based candidates will primarily attend the Newcastle office when required.
• This role suits engineers who enjoy solving complex infrastructure challenges through automation in a highly technical environment.