Senior Linux Platform Engineer
Posted 2 weeks ago by Alexander Ash Consulting
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Linux Platform Engineer role is focused on supporting a new HPC environment within a Hedge Fund's Storage Engineering team. The position emphasizes platform integration, compliance testing, and process documentation to uphold operational and security standards. Candidates should possess extensive Linux engineering experience and deep knowledge of AWS services. The role requires strong scripting skills and familiarity with various configuration and monitoring tools.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the Storage Engineering team in a new HPC environment.
- Focus on platform integration, compliance testing, and process documentation.
- Ensure operational and security standards are met.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years of Linux engineering experience (RHEL/Ubuntu).
- Strong Bash scripting skills plus Python or Go.
- Deep AWS experience (EC2, AMI creation, block-device mapping, etc.).
- Experience with Packer and Ansible.
- Familiarity with cloud-init/user-data and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience with configuration management and monitoring tools.
- Practical security hardening skills.
- 2+ years experience with enterprise storage technologies preferred.
- Linux certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, or equivalent) preferred.
- Experience with containerized storage solutions and cloud storage services.
- Exposure to virtualization technologies and troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of advanced AMI tooling and compliance scanning.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Senior Linux Platform Engineer
Location: London - Hybrid
I am currently working with Hedge fund that is looking for mid-level Linux Systems Engineer. This role is part of a Storage Engineering team supporting a new HPC environment, with a focus on platform integration, compliance testing, and process documentation to ensure operational and security standards are met.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years Linux engineering (RHEL/Ubuntu) with strong Bash plus Python or Go.
- Deep AWS experience: EC2, AMI creation, block-device mapping, Launch Templates, Auto Scaling Groups, EBS, and encryption.
- Experience with Packer for image baking and Ansible for idempotent configuration.
- Familiarity with cloud-init/user-data, immutable server principles, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins).
- Experience with configuration management, monitoring, and observability tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Victoria Metrics/Logs).
- Practical security hardening skills (CIS benchmarks, SSH hardening, KMS, SSM Session Manager).
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years experience with enterprise storage technologies.
- Linux certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, or equivalent).
- Experience with containerized storage solutions (Docker volumes, Kubernetes persistent volumes).
- Familiarity with cloud storage services (AWS S3).
- Exposure to virtualization technologies (VMware) and performance/network troubleshooting.
- Knowledge of advanced AMI tooling and compliance scanning (EC2 Image Builder, Testinfra/Molecule, Trivy, InSpec).