Linux Systems Administration Manager - Financial Fintech

Linux Systems Administration Manager. Circa £100K

Leading City based Financial

Office/WFH Blend

Our client (A leading financial Exchange) is looking to hire a technical manager to lead the Linux System Administration team. This role is responsible for leading and managing the day-to-day operations of the Linux infrastructure team, including both senior-level system administrators and the Linux support desk staff.

A number of years Linux systems administration experience with at lease 3 years in a managerial or team lead role.

Strong expertise with RHEL-based systems, including installation, ongoing management, monitoring, performance tuning, system security hardening, etc.

Proven track record of managing teams, including senior engineers and tier-1/2 support staff including on-call and rota scheduling.

Experience in managing complex IT projects, including system migrations and infrastructure upgrades.

The successful candidate will manage both the Linux internal support team as well as a senior sysadmin team of experienced professionals. These teams oversee the entire Linux estate including development, QA and multiple production trading systems including some belonging to third party clients.

Collaborate with development, networks, ops and product teams on strategic IT initiatives.

Assist with planning, management and resource allocation of inter-departmental projects alongside the PM team.

Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, and rapid resolution of system outages or performance degradation.

Improve system monitoring, alerting, documentation, operating procedures and incident response processes.

Previous experience with low latency systems or financial experience desirable.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interface with operations desks, application developers, compliance teams, and executive leadership.