Senior Linux Platform Engineer

Senior Linux Platform Engineer

Posted 7 days ago by Alexander Ash Consulting

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Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
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Summary: The Senior Linux Platform Engineer role involves supporting a new HPC environment within a Hedge Fund's Storage Engineering team, focusing on platform integration, compliance testing, and process documentation. The position requires extensive experience in Linux engineering and cloud technologies, particularly AWS. The engineer will ensure operational and security standards are met while working with various tools and technologies. This is a hybrid role based in London.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the HPC environment as part of the Storage Engineering team.
  • Focus on platform integration, compliance testing, and process documentation.
  • Ensure operational and security standards are met.
  • Utilize various tools for configuration management, monitoring, and observability.
  • Implement practical security hardening measures.

Key Skills:

  • 5+ years of Linux engineering experience (RHEL/Ubuntu).
  • Strong skills in Bash plus Python or Go.
  • Deep AWS experience (EC2, AMI creation, EBS, etc.).
  • Experience with Packer and Ansible.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and configuration management tools.
  • Practical security hardening skills.
  • Preferred: 2+ years with enterprise storage technologies and Linux certifications.
  • Experience with containerized storage solutions and cloud storage services.
  • Knowledge of virtualization technologies and compliance scanning tools.

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: undetermined

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT

Detailed Description From Employer:

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).
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