Our client, one of the top US Buy Side firms, is urgently looking for a Senior UNIX / Linux Engineer to join their dedicated team of technologists responsible for managing and supporting their electronic trading infrastructure.  This is a technical and hands-on role with great potential and remuneration.

Responsibilities:
– Manage and support the firm’s electronic trading infrastructure (including Linux / RHEL, virtualisation, low latency trading, Linux tuning etc.) in a global infra environment.
– Hands-on UNIX / Linux: installation, configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning and automation for the production trading environment.
– Monitoring the performance and health of the critical production trading environment.
– Work closely with engineers, devs, and other colleagues to find solutions to complex problems, including off-hours, weekends and holidays for support (when required).

Requirements:
– At least 6 to 8+ years’ UNIX / Linux systems administration experience in UNIX, Linux, and RHEL in a Bank / Financial Institution.
– In-depth OS knowledge (operating systems processes, performance tuning, kernel bypass); as well as experience covering x86 hardware and low latency networking interfaces.
– Hands-on scripting, automation and (Bash, Python, Perl / Powershell) and system tooling.- Configuration Management (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Terraform).
– Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering (or related).
– Good English communication skills.
– Knowledge and experience with Cloud Platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), Storage (SAN / NAS / iSCSI), Windows-Linux interaction, and RHCE certification is a definite advantage.

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