🚨 Senior Linux / Devops Engineer (12-Month FTC)
Salary: £75-85k
📍 Location
* Hybrid working
* 3 days per week in the office
A global financial services organisation is looking for a Senior Linux / Devops Engineer to join its Infrastructure Engineering team supporting a large and business-critical Linux estate.
This is an opportunity for a strong Linux engineer to work in a high-availability production environment, supporting key trading and financial platforms while helping the organisation modernise towards automation, DevOps tooling and cloud infrastructure.
💼 What you’ll be doing
* Managing and maintaining a large Linux / Unix server estate (Redhat)
* Supporting core business-critical applications and platforms
* Building, patching and upgrading Linux systems to ensure security, performance and stability
* Automating operational processes using Ansible, Python and Bash
* Troubleshooting complex OS-level issues and performance bottlenecks
* Supporting containerised workloads
* Monitoring infrastructure using modern observability tooling
* Working closely with infrastructure, security and application teams
* Helping evolve traditional Linux operations toward SRE-style automation and cloud operations
The role focuses on operational excellence, automation and platform stability across enterprise Linux environments.
🖥 Technology environment
* Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Solaris
* Virtualisation/ Cloud: VMware- moving into AWS
* Automation: Ansible, Kubernetes
* Scripting: Python, Bash
* Containers: Docker, Podman
* Monitoring: Grafana, Prometheus
* Infrastructure scale: ~200 Linux VMs supporting core financial applications
☁️ Future direction
The organisation is beginning a broader move toward cloud and modern infrastructure platforms.
👤 What we’re looking for
* Strong experience administering enterprise Linux environments
* Advanced troubleshooting skills across CPU, memory, network and storage
* Experience with Ansible automation and configuration management
* Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash
* Experience with containers (Docker / Podman)
* Comfortable working in large production environments
Nice to have:
* Murex
💡 Why consider this role?
* Work on large-scale Linux infrastructure
* Opportunity to move toward cloud, DevOps and SRE practices
* Join a collaborative infrastructure engineering team
* Gain financial services experience in a complex technical environment