Linux Engineer

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Social network you want to login/join with: My client is a tech-centric prop trading fund, trading a wide range of financial products across the globe. Linux Engineers work with the critical infrastructure underlying the rest of the firm’s technology. Members of this group are hard-working Systems Engineers, Administrators and Programmers, tasked with maintaining and improving the platform that powers the production trading systems. The mix of in-house and open source software allows you to investigate and innovate at every level. On any given day, you could be debugging kernel performance, developing management tools, or resolving production issues in real time. Diving into tricky systems problems is their specialty. Deployment automation, scalable configuration management, and obsessive monitoring are the focus of ongoing projects. They automate as much work as possible – not through laziness, but because automation reduces error rates and overall workload – plus it’s fun! Working in this group provides opportunities for involvement with almost every other facet of the company. You’ll work directly with colleagues in Trading, Technology, and Operations to build and maintain systems with a firm-wide scope. Using feedback from other groups and custom monitoring tools, they strive to resolve production issues quickly, perform comprehensive root-cause analyses, and integrate long-term fixes in a clean and robust way. About You Looking to hire Systems Programmers and Administrators with a deep knowledge of Unix internals and the Linux ecosystem. Candidates should have a willingness to learn OCaml, and meet the following requirements: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or other technical discipline (or equivalent experience) Clear and concise communication skills, as well as the ability to efficiently analyze and deconstruct technical problems Deep knowledge of operating system fundamentals, especially Linux Fluency with the Unix command line and shell scripting Practical experience with modern Linux systems and systems programming concepts like C, sockets, virtual memory, and the process life cycle Basic understanding of network protocols Strong troubleshooting skills and knowledge of profiling/debugging tools, such as gdb, perf, DTrace, or SystemTap Programming experience in any language (functional languages a plus) Fluency in English required Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

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Location:
London
Salary:
£125,000 - £150,000
Category:
IT & Technology

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