Linux Platform Engineer

Overview

In this role you will build and evolve the Linux platform stack that underpins a high-performance compute environment for quantitative research. You will own OS images, provisioning, observability, security, and tooling, helping move the platform toward autonomous, AI-enabled operations. You’ll contribute to a secure, scalable infrastructure that supports large-scale research and innovation. This is a hands-on, cross-disciplinary role that combines deep Linux expertise with automation and incident response, in a fast-paced, mission-driven team.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation + annual discretionary bonus
• lunch provided
• 30 days' annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• cycle-to-work scheme

Responsibilities

• Build, release and maintain core Linux OS images across the estate
• Develop provisioning and lifecycle management systems (PXE, kickstart, cloud-init)
• Design and maintain APIs, databases and package tooling used across the firm
• Apply Infrastructure as Code with Ansible to automate deployments
• Lead vulnerability response including CVE triage and remediation
• Help design agentic frameworks for autonomous detection and remediation
• Improve observability and telemetry to track OS health, provisioning and compliance

Key requirements

• Strong hands-on Linux experience (RHEL and Ubuntu)
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals (boot process, kernel modules, filesystems, package management)
• Kernel optimisation and performance tuning knowledge desirable
• Knowledge of eBPF is a strong плюс
• Strong programming skills (Python)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible) and automation
• Strong understanding of Linux security, hardening, patch management and CIS benchmarks
• Interest in agentic/AI-driven operations beneficial
• Problem-solving mindset and collaboration skills

• problem-solving
• collaboration
• communication
• Linux internals
• RHEL and Ubuntu
• kernel optimisation

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