Platform Engineer (Linux)

Location: London Area, United Kingdom (Hybrid)

Company

hirify.global is the recruiting organization presenting this Platform Engineering opportunity.

What you will do

• Maintain and evolve automated Linux image builds, build pipelines, and provisioning tooling for the business-wide Linux desktop estate.
• Support Linux OS images and the tooling used to provision machines across the business.
• Administer and troubleshoot Linux systems, including filesystems, package management, networking, CPU, memory, and system performance.
• Work across security, certificate management, vulnerability remediation, patching, monitoring, and hardware lifecycle management.
• Contribute to infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, dashboards, and BMC or lights-out management.

Requirements

• Strong experience as a Linux Platform Engineer.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills covering filesystems, package management, networking, CPU, memory, and system performance.
• Experience with Linux administration, automation, and infrastructure provisioning.
• Experience working with automated Linux image builds using Dagger, Packer, Jenkins, and Bash.
• Experience with Python-based provisioning tooling.

Nice to have

• Experience with OpenStack, Ironic, bare-metal provisioning, virtualisation, and infrastructure automation.
• Python scripting, CI/CD pipelines, dashboards, and BMC or lights-out management experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in the London Area, United Kingdom.
• Join a small, newly formed Platform Engineering team.
• Broad ownership across Linux infrastructure, automation, provisioning, and the wider desktop platform.
• Work in a highly technical quantitative technology environment.