Unix Platform Engineer

Overview

The Unix Platform Engineer position is based in London, United Kingdom, within the Technology Infrastructure team at Bluecrestcapitalmanagement. This group operates globally to manage the firm's hybrid platform, covering office environments, trading and core service co-location data centres, and public cloud infrastructure. The team maintains continuous operational support while transforming platforms to support a dynamic trading organization and meet changing business requirements.

What you get

The role involves working within a London-based Infrastructure Platform Engineering team to design, engineer, and support private and public cloud initiatives. Responsibilities include maintaining the BlueCrest Linux estate and Automation Services across on-premise, colocation, and public cloud platforms. The position delivers services to core business sectors such as trading, middle and back office, and technology, handling critical business-as-usual tasks and technology service delivery in a time-sensitive environment.

Requirements

Applicants should have extensive knowledge and experience with a major enterprise Linux server distribution covering installation, configuration, automation, administration, and support. Desirable qualifications include SUSE Certified Administrator or Engineer, Red Hat Certified System Administrator or Engineer, or equivalent Linux certification. Candidates should possess experience with container platforms and tooling like Docker, Kubernetes, Prometheus, and GitOps, as well as knowledge in integrating Linux within a Windows environment using Active Directory and Kerberos.

Additional background should encompass designing and supporting low-latency Unix-based trading systems in exchange colocation data centres, automating and orchestrating cross-platform services with Terraform, Terragrunt, and Cloud-Init, and advanced scripting or programming skills in Python and Bash alongside CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and data structures like JSON and YAML. Experience with server hardware implementation, maintenance, monitoring, and automation using Infrastructure as Code and Ansible is required, as is experience supporting hybrid environments, cloud-integrated on-premises infrastructure, and AI/ML workloads or AIOps. Ideal candidates are self-motivated, technology-focused, and capable of working in pressurised enterprise trading environments.