The opportunity

📍Be responsible for managing the Linux kernel and operating systems for all our on-premise servers, both from a low-latency performance and security perspective. 📍Tune and optimize both the Linux kernel, operating system and associated hardware. 📍Work closely with the various SRE/Dev teams to ensure applications run optimally and securely. 📍Automate everything from kernel builds and testing, to ‘at scale’ production deployments. 📍Integrate kernel and operating system configuration with IaC tooling. 📍Improve the current observability, monitoring and alerting associated to your areas of responsibility. 📍Work on a common container platform that’s used by SRE/Dev teams. 📍Provide architectural input and peer review across multiple teams and exchange services.

Skills you should HODL

📍3+ years of experience working with Linux kernels and operating systems. 📍Advanced knowledge of Linux, focussed on automation and performance tuning. Able to squeeze every bit of performance out of the servers our trading engine is running on! 📍A deep understanding of security. You know your way around Linux kernels and how to tweak them to build extremely secure environments. 📍Building automated performance benchmarking, leveraging CI/CD technologies. 📍Knowledge of low-latency networking (Solarflare/Xilinx onload) and knowledge of the network protocols. 📍Strong with scripting languages (Bash, Python) 📍Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling (Terraform/Kubernetes, Ansible/Salt) 📍Experience with containerisation (Docker, KVM) 📍CI/CD & toolchains (Gitlab, make, gcc) 📍Experience with software-defined storage systems (Ceph, Gluster) 📍Knowledge for Cloud Platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud.