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Senior Linux Platform Engineer (Research Team)

Senior Linux Platform Engineer (Research Team)

Hybrid

London, United kingdom

Senior

Freelance

16-11-2025

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Skills

Leadership Python Splunk GitLab CI/CD DevOps Docker Kubernetes Jenkins Ansible Networking Research Linux Programming Software Development SDLC Terraform Prometheus Grafana

Job Specifications

The successful candidate will join the infrastructure team as a hands-on Lead within our Research Infrastructure Engineering team. This team are responsible for our cutting-edge high-performance trading and research infrastructure and are responsible for the development and maintenance across operating system platforms, software development tooling, high-performance computing, high performance networking and large-scale storage systems.

The candidate will work directly with our research and trading teams with a primary focus on Linux-based systems. This includes, workload scheduling design and implementation, management of systems at large scale, high performance file system design and operation, software design and life cycle (SDLC), kernel and network performance tuning for low-latency and high-throughput applications instrumentation and telemetry collection.

As a senior engineer, you will partner closely with our research and other infrastructure engineering teams and work in a highly collaborative manner
You will have 10+ years of experience in Linux systems administration and platform engineering, with a proven track record of technical leadership
Deep knowledge of high-performance analysis, tuning and optimisation across Linux kernel tuning, hardware optimisation, network performance and storage performance
You will identify, troubleshoot, and resolve high-complexity system issues, optimizing system performance and reliability
You will have deep knowledge of DevOps tooling including Terraform/Ansible and be able to demonstrate use of CI/CD technologies such as Gitlab and Jenkins
You will stay at the forefront of industry trends and emerging technologies, providing strategic insights to optimize our infrastructure and operations, performing POC and presenting results where applicable
You will have strong knowledge of Python, Golang or similar programming and scripting languages
You will have strong knowledge of Infrastructure metric visualisation using Splunk, Prometheus and Grafana
You will have expertise with container technologies like Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes.

About the Company

Levy Professionals: Your Global Partner for Project Success Levy Professionals specializes in project-based roles, elevating your project delivery with our Statement of Work (SOW) model. Expanding into the USA, Germany, and Belgium in September 2024, we are enhancing our global footprint. Founded in 2000, Levy has become a sustainable provider of professional staffing solutions, serving tech start-ups to global enterprises across various industries. Global Reach and Expertise Based in the UK and Amsterdam, we have an exte... Know more