Senior Linux Platform Engineer

Trading Screen ,
London, Greater London
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Overview BidFX is a FinTech start-up on a mission to disrupt the foreign exchange market, applying innovative technology to tap FX liquidity. Foreign exchange is the largest financial market in the world, with 5 trillion traded every day. We are a small but fast-growing company with big, global aspirations. We aim to connect the world of finance. We operate a successful core trading platform, with direct connectivity to all major banks, fronted by a sophisticated trading user interface. We seek candidates who wish to help us fulfil our vision and share in our success. We value diversity and offer equal opportunities to all. BidFX engineers are responsible for solving some of the world's most interesting technical problems. Quality cuts across every aspect of our being. Together we commit to providing an excellent user experience. Client service takes priority, but we also value our free time and appreciate that staff have commitments to friends and family. So, we cooperate to complete tasks during normal office hours. We incorporate instrumentation into all of our systems and trust in automation to provide operational efficiency. The successful candidate will receive a generous salary that compares well with the best in our sector. A full benefits package covering pension, private health care and dental cover. Participation in an annual bonus scheme that rewards performance with a mix of cash and shares. We recognise that the best engineers thrive on continuous skills improvement. BidFX commit to investment in your future. In addition to training and mentoring, we will allocate a budget for your personal career development. You'll get 25 days of annual leave (rising to 30 with service) and 3 personal days, on top of national holidays. Small perks include free breakfast and fresh fruit, office lunches, Friday drinks and regular social activities. Our technical team is located in the heart of London's Theatre Land, near Covent Garden. The area is well connected, is pleasant with a cool vibe, has lots of good eateries and plenty of shopping opportunities. Responsibilities As the Senior Linux Platform engineer in the BidFX Infrastructure Team, you will be responsible for managing and engineering BidFX's global CentOS Linux platform estate in both its private and public cloud environments. Our globally distributed, high-available, cloud-hosted SAAS platform processes 5 billion messages per day. Some of our platforms already run on the Google Cloud Platform and we have aspiration to diversify into alternative cloud providers including AWS. You will have the opportunity to shape the future direction of the platform infrastructure in a fast growing fintech. You will be responsible for the hosted server architecture and systems administration, which is currently CentOS running on Dell hardware. Once you have understood and reviewed the existing server architecture and production footprint, you will work closely with existing platform architect and engineers at BidFX's parent company to architect, develop, implement and support a separation strategy for BidFX's server infrastructure from its parent company before taking full ownership. In parallel, you will devise and oversee the continuation of BidFX's secure and robust transition of its platform infrastructure into the public cloud, driving BidFX's server architecture forwards with a bias for innovation. You will strive for efficient deployment and standard configuration management through automation in both the private and public cloud footprints, providing some DevOps overlap with the BidFX's Development Team where required. You will interface with all levels of the business and have a global responsibility (UK, US, Asia). You will be able to troubleshoot issues, handle incident escalations (sometimes out-of-hours) while promoting production change management processes and procedures. Qualifications You will be educated to a Bachelor's degree or higher in a STEM subject. You will have at least 5 years' experience in a UNIX Platform role working with hosted platform and, perhaps more recently, modern cloud technology. You will be enthusiastic, organised and adaptable; a quick learner, who is able to adopt new technology with ease. Naturally, you will have good interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to integrate seamlessly with other IT professionals including application programmers, network engineers, security specialists and DBAs. BidFX will give you the opportunity to work in a multidisciplinary team. You must have recent experience of: * System administration of RedHat Linux / CentOS / variants of * Server hardware architecture * VMware, KVM or oVirt * Managing hosts via a framework using technologies such as Satellite, Foreman, Puppet, Chef and Ansible * Disk interfaces, NFS, iSCSI * Volume management and RAID * DNS, Mail * PTP * Server backups * Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and/or AWS compute services * Scripting languages - Python and Bash *

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