About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Background in Linux engineering, production support, platform engineering, or SRE.
- Strong hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting skills in a production environment.
- Ability to support highly available, business-critical infrastructure.
- Strong scripting skills using Python and/or Bash.
- Demonstrable ability to develop automation and improve operational processes.
- Proactive engineering mindset, with the ability to investigate and resolve issues independently.
- Desirable: Experience with AWS or other public cloud environments.
- Desirable: Knowledge of monitoring and observability platforms.
- Desirable: Experience with infrastructure automation.
- Desirable: Previous experience in financial services, trading, investment banking, or other low-latency technology environments.
- Desirable: Experience working within a global 24x7 support model.
Responsibilities
- Monitor, maintain, and support a business-critical Linux production environment.
- Proactively investigate and resolve production incidents, taking ownership through to resolution.
- Troubleshoot Linux, infrastructure, and platform-related issues.
- Manage Linux patching and lifecycle activities across on-premise and cloud environments.
- Develop scripts and automation to improve operational efficiency and eliminate repetitive manual processes.
- Use monitoring and observability tools to maintain platform health and identify potential issues.
- Participate in regional handovers and a global follow-the-sun support and on-call rota.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams to improve platform stability and resilience.
Technologies
- ARM
- AWS
- Bash
- Cloud
- Support
- Linux
- Python
- DevOps
- Security
More
We are advertising a six-month contract for two Linux Site Reliability Engineers with a financial-sector client. The role supports a sophisticated, business-critical trading platform in a globally distributed technology environment, working with colleagues in London and New York as part of a follow-the-sun support model. The position is based in London on a hybrid arrangement, initially requiring four days per week onsite and reducing to two days over time. The rate is £530–£580 per day, inside IR35. We are part of ARM, a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy providing technical contingency recruitment and resource solutions across technical industries. We will not send your CV without your permission.
last updated 44 week of 2026