Hardware Management Engineer

Hardware Management Engineer – High Performance Infrastructure

Location: London - Hybrid

Permanent

We are partnered with a leading global quantitative hedge fund seeking a Hardware Management Engineer to join their Research Infrastructure Engineering team. You will play a hands-on lead role in managing cutting-edge high-performance trading and research infrastructure , directly supporting research and trading teams on mission-critical projects.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Linux and infrastructure specialist to work at the forefront of HPC (high-performance computing), low-latency engineering, and large-scale systems .

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise large-scale Linux-based platforms for high-performance trading and research workloads.
• Design and implement workload scheduling, high-performance file systems, and storage operations.
• Optimise hardware, networking, and kernel performance for low-latency and high-throughput environments .
• Partner closely with research and infrastructure teams to deliver scalable, reliable solutions.
• Drive automation using Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins , and support SDLC best practices.
• Provide visibility and performance monitoring using Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana .
• Contribute to containerisation and orchestration strategy with Docker and Kubernetes .
• Stay ahead of industry trends, conduct POCs, and deliver technical recommendations.

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years’ experience in Linux systems administration / platform engineering .
• Proven technical leadership in hardware optimisation, kernel tuning, and network/storage performance .
• Hands-on experience with DevOps and CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, Jenkins).
• Programming / scripting knowledge in Python, Golang, or similar .
• Experience with metrics visualisation tools (Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience in hedge funds, trading firms, or other low-latency / HPC environments is highly desirable.