Salary: up to £250k base

Summary

Fantastic opportunity for a hands-on Systems Engineer to join an industry-leading global market maker, using innovative and cutting-edge technology. Forget the stuffy world of finance you thought you knew; developers here are tech-driven and truly world-class.

As a part of the server virtualization team evolving the compute platform for the business, you will be instrumental in shaping and executing the virtualization strategy, including optimizing resource utilization and ensuring robust disaster recovery & business continuity. Working directly with platform users to understand requirements, you will translate these into effective solutions that you then build and configure. Self-documenting, version-controlled code and configurations are prioritized at his firm.

The successful candidate will have experience working in high-performance environments, with exposure to Kubernetes and Virtualization platforms at enterprises.

Requirements

• Strong programming skills in at least one language, ideally Python or Go
• Keen drive to identify and eliminate toil
• Knowledge of and curiosity about computer networks, including routing and firewall
• Solid knowledge of Linux operating systems
• Minimum bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science (or related discipline)

Desirable

• Proficiency in infrastructure provisioning/management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Packer)
• Experience with cloud platforms, such as Google Cloud and Azure
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP networking, architecture, and core technologies (such as DNS, DHCP, HTTP, Routing, VPN)
• Ability to manage and implement large-scale infrastructure projects

NB: Please don't apply if you're a fresh graduate.

Rewards and Incentives

• Significant salary + bonus + benefits
• Build complex software solutions to solve challenging problems in agile environment
• Positive, friendly culture
• Work with some of the smartest minds in the industry from a range of backgrounds

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact
If this sounds like you, or you'd like to know more, please get in touch.

Andy Stirling-Martin
andy@oxfordknight.co.uk
+44 (0)20 3137 9579
linkedin.com/in/andrew-stirling-martin-7664a946