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Linux Infrastructure Engineer Fintech/Trading
Job in
London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listed on 2026-09-03
Listing for:
Quant Capital
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-03
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Systems Administrator, Unix/Linux, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Quant Capital is urgently looking for an Linux Infrastructure Engineer to join our high profile client.
Our client has recently been voted in the fintech 100 (best financial technology businesses). They provide a market leading Execution Management System for buy and sell side clients as well as Algo Execution. They have offices globally (travel arranged for your benefit if wanted)
The Infrastructure group is responsible for managing and engineering the company’s global solutions for networks, firewalls, servers and storage. The ideal candidate will have experience with the UNIX / Linux operating system and exposure to configuration management tools and cloud services.
The client trades across Equities, Fixed Income, and FXOn a day to Day basis the Linux Engineer will:
Ownership, maintenance and support of all trading system components
Identification and mitigation of risks to service delivery and proactive resolution of issues before they impact service levels.
Incident and problem management, including root cause analysis and follow up. Coordination of all relevant parties during client facing outages. Timely escalation of complex issues or problems.
Resiliency testing. Regular and systematic testing of application redundancy and failover.
Real-time system monitoring using a diverse set of industry standard and proprietary tools.
Capacity planning and assessment.
Application maintenance, including change and release management (planned and emergency application deployment, configuration and patching).Definition, management, and leadership of projects to improve operational efficiency, system monitoring and automation of manual tasks.
Definition and maintenance of operational run books and other documentation.
Support Specialists MUST have:5 years+ experience as a System Administrator (preferably Redhat & Ubuntu variants) SSolid understanding of volume management and principles of RAIDSolid understanding of virtual memory and system performance analysis
Pure, Net App or EMC storage experience an advantage
Knowledge of Google and/or AWS cloud services
Knowledge and experience of multi-vendor cloud management tools an advantage Scripting/Programming skills in any language an advantage
Ideally Knowledge and experience of managing hosts via a framework such as Ansible or Puppet Knowledge and experience with addressing vulnerability scanning reports and patch deployment
Knowledge and experience with maintaining PAM (Privileged Access Management) tools
Knowledge of gitYou will be joining a progressive and exciting company committed to excellence. They offer an excellent working environment with on-going training and a structured career path. You can also expect an excellent salary and benefits package.
My client is based in London, 4 days a week in the officeFIX, Linux TT, RTS, Bloomberg, Scripting, Client Support, FIX Integration, Implementation, NYSE, FTSE, EUREX, ICE, Nasdaq LSE, LME
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