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Infrastructure Automation Engineer
A boutique high frequency trading firm in London is hiring an Infrastructure Automation Engineer.
You'll own their in-house tool that builds and manages their Linux servers. It's a mainly bare-metal estate. You'll automate the manual work across server builds, patching, secrets, networking, releases, and monitoring.
Responsibilities:
- Own and build on their in-house Linux provisioning tool. It's written in Python.
- Automate patching, OS updates, and secrets/credentials across the estate.
- Lead their secrets management project (OpenBao / Vault).
- Move network and firewall config into Git, with peer review on changes.
- Improve the build and release process, and automate repeatable Windows builds.
- Improve monitoring and alerting so problems are caught early.
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Requirements:
- 5+ years in infrastructure, platform, DevOps, SRE, or Linux systems engineering.
- Proper hands-on Linux administration.
- Enough Python to own and extend the existing code and make sound engineering calls on your own, without a developer guiding you.
- A track record of building the automation yourself: repeatable, at scale, under version control.
- You treat config as code and ship changes through Git and pull requests.
- Hands-on with bare-metal / on-prem infrastructure (colocation, hosting, HPC, telecoms, or similar).
- Some understanding of networking: VLANs, routing, firewalls, switches.
- Senior enough to own systems and make your own calls.
Useful experience:
- Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform.
- Vault, OpenBao, or other secrets-management tools.
- PXE, Kickstart, Foreman, MAAS, or similar provisioning tools.
- ESXi or other virtualization.
- Prometheus, Grafana, PRTG, or similar monitoring tools.
- Windows automation, Active Directory, or image-based builds.
- An opinion on how this should be done, for example whether to move to immutable, image-based OS builds.
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Working model:
- Office-based in London, 5 days a week.
- The odd out-of-hours change when something big needs scheduling.
- No overnight on-call rota.
Why join:
- Full ownership of the tool the whole estate runs on.
- A real, mostly bare-metal estate, not a cloud-only platform.
- Build automation, not work through a ticket queue.
- Small team, everyone sees and works on the code.
- Real projects to build from scratch, starting with secrets management.
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