Global Head of Linux Infrastructure Support - Stanford Black

Global Head of Linux Infrastructure Support | Tech‑Led Hedge Fund

We are partnering with a highly sophisticated, technology‑driven hedge fund seeking a Global Head of Linux Infrastructure Support to lead a critical function responsible for the stability, performance, and scalability of firm‑wide trading infrastructure.

This is a high‑impact leadership role offering the opportunity to shape global support strategy, drive automation, and oversee mission‑critical environments within a fast‑paced, performance‑sensitive business.

You will lead a globally distributed organisation with regional leadership across APAC, EMEA, and North America, supporting a complex estate spanning platform applications and core Unix server environments.

Working closely with specialist teams across Observability, Scheduling & Orchestration, Development Tooling, Compute, Storage, Linux Engineering, and Dev Ops, you will play a central role in ensuring the resilience and operational excellence of the firm’s trading infrastructure.

• Setting the vision, policies, and operational roadmap for global infrastructure support
• Driving automation, self‑service capabilities, and operational maturity across the function
• Ensuring service levels are achieved while scaling to meet evolving business demands
• Empowering teams through strong leadership, training, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Coordinating technical efforts across multiple engineering groups
• Leading major incident and outage recovery with a calm, structured approach
• Remaining technically credible, with the ability to engage deeply when required

• Proven experience leading technology teams, ideally at a global scale
• Strong Linux/Unix administration background (RHEL/CentOS/OEL preferred)
• Strategic mindset with a strong customer‑service orientation
• Track record of driving automation within infrastructure or support teams
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices, including observability, orchestration, containerization, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and configuration management
• ITIL knowledge is a plus
• Experience with in a compute heavy infrastructure environment i.e. Low Latency Trading or Big tech
• Bachelor’s degree

• Technology‑first hedge fund with significant investment in infrastructure
• High‑visibility role with genuine organisational impact
• Collaborative, high‑calibre engineering environment
• Leading compensation and benefits
• Opportunity to influence the direction of a globally critical function

If you are a technology leader with expertise in Linux Infrastructure looking to operate at scale within a performance‑driven environment, we would welcome a confidential conversation.