Our client, a leading investment bank based in the City of London, are seeking a Senior Linux Engineer.

Reporting to the Head of UNIX Engineering you will be responsible for delivering services to the business and technology functions for the distributed platforms.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced engineer to provide support for the Linux discipline within the Infrastructure group. The candidate must be able to work fast paced environment and remain calm under pressure.

Duties will include:

•providing technical expertise to improve the integrity and quality of the operating environment.
•Responsiblity for the upgrade of Redhat 4.6 to 5
•Ownership of the upgrade.

Skills Required:

-Strong general and current Technology knowledge in particular with respect to technology deployment in investment banking and other innovative technology users.
-Good understanding of Engineering and Architecture.

Hands on experience with following:
-Redhat configuration, management, debugging, tuning and deployment
-Redhat support infrastructure, eg. NIS NIS+, LDAP, NFS, and Samba etc.
-Veritas Clustering and Foundation products
-HP and IBM servers and blades
- Satallite server

Strong understanding of the following is preferable:

-Virtualisation – exposure to VMWare
-Oracle 10g RAC and non RAC
-Sybase 12.5 and above

Personal Attributes:

-Articulate and Organised
-Client facing
-Quality driven
-Project focused


This is a unique opportunity to work and brainstorn with some of the smartest Unix/ Linux experts in London...

Package - Excellent base salary, pension and bonus.



Aston Carter Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.