Linux Expert - London - GBP80k - GBP85k
- Recruiter
- Deerfoot I.T. Resources Ltd
- Location
- London
- Salary
- 80000.00 - 85000.00 GBP Annual
- Posted
- 25 Jan 2015
- Closes
- 28 Jan 2015
- Sectors
- Health, Nursing & Social Care
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Linux SME/Platform Lead - Banking - Central London - 80k - 85k + bonus + Benefits
Key Skill: Linux, Low Latency Trading Systems, Linux Networking, FX, Geneos, JMX Monitoring, Corvil, Bash, Perl, Python, C++.
Our client is an extremely well run international bank with EMEA HQ in London. We receive extremely favourable feedback from individuals that have joined via ourselves over the past period and we genuinely consider this to be one of the better banks in terms of how employees are supported. With virtually zero exposure to the sub-prime market this bank stood strong in the financial crisis and has an excellent balance sheet.
As a trusted preferred recruitment partner we have been asked to assist in the recruitment of a Linux SME/Platform Lead. This is an exciting opportunity to work for a newly created Architecture and Engineering team within EFX, to engineer designs and develop platform builds for Low Latency trading, Service Virtualisation and Continuous Integration and Deployment tools. This role would suit Linux Engineers who have worked in HPC/Low Latency trading arenas, who understand networking, OS tunable stacks along with orchestration and automation toolset. The delivery engineer role will allow the individual to package up those expert skills and move them into a highly automated CI/CD environment, to provide the technology and tooling for the new EFX DevOps team. You will be responsible for the design and implementation of the infrastructure and tools to support the delivery of robust technology solutions.
Behavioural Competencies (Essential). Good listening and communication skills. Coaching and mentoring junior DevOps professionals
Work Experience (Essential) Experience working in a similar environment using a similar skill set.
Education (Essential) Degree educated in Computer Science
Functional/Technical Competencies (Essential). Experience with tooling and practices to support automated build, automated regression test of software, with a focus on software delivery quality improvement and/or development team productivity improvements.. Experience managing implementations of continuous delivery practices, using DevOps vision and different aspects of process improvements, ie culture and people, Methods and Techniques, Processes and organisation etc.. Experience with Architectural design and delivery of IT systems, using Cloud technologies, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS etc.. Excellent Linux/Unix engineering and tuning skills. Excellent Monitoring engineering skills (Geneos, JMX Monitoring, Corvil). Understanding of Linux Kernel latency pressure points and mitigation techniques. Excellent Low latency performance tuning. Understanding of Linux networking
Functional/Technical Competencies (Preferred). Good Scripting skills: bash, Perl, Python. Understanding of Kernel bypass technologies. C/C++ programming experience. Benchmarking skills/experience
Thank you so much for reviewing this role specification. All applications with care and confidentiality. Deerfoot IT was est. as a Recruitment Agency in 1997. REC member. ISO9001:208 certified. We are an approved supplier to this client..We donate GBP1 to our nominated charity for 2014 every time we send a CV to a client (The Born Free Foundation)..Ipad3 referral reward available on this role (t's and c's apply).