Linux DevOps Specialist – Big Data Fintech

Overview

As a Linux DevOps Specialist, you will build and run a multi-site, internet-facing fintech service at scale. You’ll shape infrastructure, automate build and release pipelines, and design multi-site failover in a high-security, high-velocity environment. You work closely with cross-functional teams to maintain continuous deployment and agile development, leveraging top open-source technologies. You’ll evangelise new tools and prototype architectures to drive performance and reliability. This role offers a technical leadership path in a fast-paced, mission-driven fintech setting.

Pay / Benefits

• excellent salary and benefits package
• ongoing training
• structured career path
• open, relaxed work environment

Responsibilities

• Provision and manage business-critical Linux systems across multiple sites (storage, compute, and some networking)
• Develop and operate in-house Linux infrastructure
• Build and maintain build/release automation
• Plan and engineer multi-site fail-over solutions
• Develop capabilities in continuous deployment, data centre affinity, and workload management

Key requirements

• 4 years commercial experience with Linux CentOS, bare metal and virtualization
• Puppet configuration management or equivalent automation experience
• Big data experience (Hadoop, Spark, Kafka)
• Containers and scheduling experience (Docker, LXC, Kubernetes, Mesos)
• Strong scripting abilities

• ambitious and proactive
• strong problem-solving under pressure
• collaborative and cross-functional communication
• Linux CentOS
• Puppet
• Hadoop