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Unix Engineer

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Summary

Maintains and automates Linux-based production environments for a global financial services firm, ensuring high availability, security, and incident resolution.

We're partnering with a global leader in the financial services sector that operates one of the world's largest technology environments. Their engineering teams build and maintain highly available, secure infrastructure supporting millions of users worldwide.

They're now looking for an Operations (Unix) Engineer who enjoys solving production challenges, improving platform reliability, and driving automation across complex enterprise environments.

If Linux is your natural habitat and you're passionate about operational excellence, we'd love to hear from you.

What you'll be doing

As part of an international engineering team, you'll play a key role in ensuring the stability, availability and resilience of critical IT services.

Your day-to-day will include:

  • Maintaining highly available Linux-based production environments

  • Managing incidents and driving root cause analysis to prevent recurring issues

  • Delivering infrastructure and operational changes with minimal business impact

  • Automating operational processes using Bash and other scripting tools

  • Supporting continuous improvement of deployment, monitoring and operational practices

  • Working closely with engineering teams and business stakeholders across multiple locations

  • Ensuring systems meet performance, security and availability standards

  • Contributing to service resilience and disaster recovery readiness

  • Improving monitoring, automation and operational efficiency across the platform

What we're looking for

We're interested in engineers who combine strong Linux administration skills with an operational mindset.

You'll ideally bring:

  • 3+ years of experience in an Infrastructure, Operations or Systems Engineering role

  • Strong Unix experience

  • Strong Linux administration experience

  • Good Bash scripting skills

  • Experience with Incident Management and Change Management processes

  • Working knowledge of SQL / T-SQL

  • Experience working with JIRA

  • Professional level of English

Nice to have

Any of the following would be a bonus:

  • DevOps experience

  • Certificate management (Venafi)

  • Smart Forms Designer or Kofax

  • JavaScript

  • French language skills

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