Linux Systems Administrator Banking
Linux Systems Administrator Banking £85K plus package
WFH/Office blend
City Financial
Our client is looking to hire a keen Linux system administrator. The prospective candidate will be part of a highly technical team working to maintain and enhance the our clients existing trading platforms as well as supporting clients with their implementation of our clients Technology solutions. This is a key role with huge scope to learn new skills, and work with multiple teams.
Responsibilities and Duties
- The successful candidate will be part of a team of highly experienced Linux Sysadmins responsible for the smooth running of all internal systems (Exchange platforms) and associated systems:
- Deployment and Maintenance of Software/OS/hardware using systems and configuration management tools (RPM, kickstart, ansible, etc.).
- Systems capacity planning; creating and maintaining a scalable system for Dev, QA, Test and Production environments.
- Projects working with the infrastructure and dev teams to enhance and improve the current technology to maintain a competitive advantage for the trading platforms as well as our clients Technology's suite of products. Areas include topics such as low latency tuning, build specification, research of new products and services, deployment tools, cloud implementation and distribution mechanisms.
- Manage backups and archiving systems/scripts.
- Patching/patch plans and implementation.
- Manage monitoring systems such as SolarWinds/Nagios.
- Assist our clients Exchange Technology clients through the life cycle of the implementation process:
- Initial specifications/RFP
- Installation/knowledge transfer/on-site support
- Integration with clients own existing systems - work with their infrastructure teams as well as our projects and dev team to provide solutions.
- Assist the internal 1st line Linux support team where necessary:
Train/Mentor the 1st line team to improve their skills.
- Provide Linux support and assistance to DevOps team.
Required Skills/Experience
- Strong system administration experience within a RedHat (or RH derivative such as CentOS/Rocky Linux) based environment.
- Proficiency with Build, CI/CD systems and especially GIT.
- Previous experience with low latency systems or financial experience desirable.
- Scripting with Python and bash essential, other languages a bonus.
- Prior experience with cloud environments desirable (AWS/GCP).
- Database administration in replicated environments, (MySQL, Elastic, QuestDB, etc), Able to craft basic SQL queries.
- Webserver technologies, nginx, NodeJS, JavaScript, Python, Tomcat.
- Packaging and maintaining software in an RPM based environment.
- Building and maintaining RH based systems - PXEboot, kickstart, DNS, Ansible, RH Satellite highly desirable.
- Advanced networking skills via NetworkManager - VLANs, routing, load balancing, multicast, etc. desirable.
- Proficiency with virtualisation software and configuration (eg VMware).
Please forward your details to receive a full job description
Reference: 2887505407
Linux Systems Administrator Banking

Posted on Jan 27, 2025 by Stream Search Ltd
Linux Systems Administrator Banking £85K plus package
WFH/Office blend
City Financial
Our client is looking to hire a keen Linux system administrator. The prospective candidate will be part of a highly technical team working to maintain and enhance the our clients existing trading platforms as well as supporting clients with their implementation of our clients Technology solutions. This is a key role with huge scope to learn new skills, and work with multiple teams.
Responsibilities and Duties
- The successful candidate will be part of a team of highly experienced Linux Sysadmins responsible for the smooth running of all internal systems (Exchange platforms) and associated systems:
- Deployment and Maintenance of Software/OS/hardware using systems and configuration management tools (RPM, kickstart, ansible, etc.).
- Systems capacity planning; creating and maintaining a scalable system for Dev, QA, Test and Production environments.
- Projects working with the infrastructure and dev teams to enhance and improve the current technology to maintain a competitive advantage for the trading platforms as well as our clients Technology's suite of products. Areas include topics such as low latency tuning, build specification, research of new products and services, deployment tools, cloud implementation and distribution mechanisms.
- Manage backups and archiving systems/scripts.
- Patching/patch plans and implementation.
- Manage monitoring systems such as SolarWinds/Nagios.
- Assist our clients Exchange Technology clients through the life cycle of the implementation process:
- Initial specifications/RFP
- Installation/knowledge transfer/on-site support
- Integration with clients own existing systems - work with their infrastructure teams as well as our projects and dev team to provide solutions.
- Assist the internal 1st line Linux support team where necessary:
Train/Mentor the 1st line team to improve their skills.
- Provide Linux support and assistance to DevOps team.
Required Skills/Experience
- Strong system administration experience within a RedHat (or RH derivative such as CentOS/Rocky Linux) based environment.
- Proficiency with Build, CI/CD systems and especially GIT.
- Previous experience with low latency systems or financial experience desirable.
- Scripting with Python and bash essential, other languages a bonus.
- Prior experience with cloud environments desirable (AWS/GCP).
- Database administration in replicated environments, (MySQL, Elastic, QuestDB, etc), Able to craft basic SQL queries.
- Webserver technologies, nginx, NodeJS, JavaScript, Python, Tomcat.
- Packaging and maintaining software in an RPM based environment.
- Building and maintaining RH based systems - PXEboot, kickstart, DNS, Ansible, RH Satellite highly desirable.
- Advanced networking skills via NetworkManager - VLANs, routing, load balancing, multicast, etc. desirable.
- Proficiency with virtualisation software and configuration (eg VMware).
Please forward your details to receive a full job description
Reference: 2887505407

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