Linux Engineer

Job Overview - Linux Engineer

We have an exciting opening at a leading global trading firm for a mid-senior level Linux Engineer to join their offices in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

As a successful candidate you will be working in a highly customized, bare metal environment ensuring the continuing efficient functioning of the trading floor.

You will be building, designing, deploying, monitoring and operating proprietary tools to ensure the trading floor technologies continue to operate at breakneck speed. You will be using these proprietary tools to ensure the continued proficiency of the bare metal UNIX servers that the trading team relies upon for their success.

Your role

• Tackle the life cycle of a server and build and deploy new solutions.
• Performance monitoring and managing the system capacity.
• Fix and analyse technical incidents, solve technical ad hoc problems.
• Lead our charge to intelligent automation.
• Be the connection between hardware and software.
• Research new technologies and solutions, implement them or build better.

Required skillsets

• Minimum 6 years experience designing, deploying and supporting large scale Linux/Unix server environments.
• Strong knowledge of Linux Kernel Internals.
• Strong Python coding skills - including automation proficiency.
• Experience within a high performance computer environment.
• Infrastructure-as-Code with an Ansible flavour.
• Developer's mindset.
• A proactive approach to problem solving.
• You are able to clearly explain your thoughts through written and verbal communication, ask the right questions, and are not afraid to challenge or defend a strategy.
• You seek out opportunities to leave your comfort zone and enjoy frequent change.