Platform Specialist
Slough, Berkshire, UK
Hybrid / WFH Options
Hybrid / WFH Options
Understanding Recruitment
highly skilled Platform Specialist to join their talented team and ensure the highest levels of availability, performance, and security across their low latency platform. In this role, you will: Design, document, and enhance platform services including servers, storage, and cloud infrastructure. Provide L3 escalation support to troubleshoot and remediate performance and availability issues. Collaborate with internal and external partners … including network, application, quant, and business teams to deliver scalable solutions. Proactively identify potential system bottlenecks and implement performance tuning and optimizations. Manage and tune Linux systems (RHEL, Rocky, CentOS, OEL) for low latency applications, including memory, CPU, and network tuning. Work closely with low latency network technologies, including kernel bypass with Solarflare/onload, and understand … ideal candidate will have: 8+ years experience in Linux system operations, engineering, or performance tuning in enterprise or trading environments. Experience with High Performance Computing (HPC) Deep understanding of network protocols (TCP, UDP, multicast) and low latency networking principles. Hands-on experience with kernel tuning and kernel development. Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Terraform. More ❯
Employment Type: Full-time
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