Linux System Engineer

**Linux Platform Operations Engineer** **Singapore \| Permanent \| Financial Markets Technology** EC1 Partners is working with a leading global financial markets technology business that is building out its **Singapore infrastructure team** . This is an opportunity for a **Linux Platform Operations Engineer** to join a highly technical environment supporting **critical trading platforms, low\-latency infrastructure, and globally distributed production systems** . The role would suit a hands\-on Linux engineer with strong experience across **production infrastructure, on\-premise systems, hardware support, automation, and operational troubleshooting** . Financial markets experience would be helpful, but the priority is strong Linux depth, reliability, ownership, and the ability to support business\-critical environments. **The Role** You will be responsible for supporting, maintaining, and improving Linux infrastructure across **production, disaster recovery, and test environments** . The current environment is heavily weighted towards **on\-premise infrastructure** , with gradual cloud adoption expected over time. This is a hands\-on engineering role covering **Linux systems administration, hardware support, configuration management, automation, incident response, performance troubleshooting, and operational reliability** . You will work closely with infrastructure, engineering, SRE, security, and operations teams across multiple regions. **Key Responsibilities** * Support and maintain **Linux server infrastructure** across global production environments. * Troubleshoot complex Linux issues across **operating systems, hardware, storage, networking, performance, and application support layers** . * Support **bare\-metal infrastructure** , OS lifecycle management, patching, upgrades, and system configuration. * Work with internal automation tooling and contribute to improvements using **Python, Shell scripting, or similar technologies** . * Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, post\-incident reviews, and long\-term remediation. * Support monitoring, observability, reporting, and operational health checks across critical infrastructure. * Work with engineering teams on capacity planning, performance tuning, infrastructure projects, and production change activity. * Operate in a highly trusted environment with access to **critical low\-latency trading systems** . **Experience Required** * Strong hands\-on experience in **Linux systems administration** within a production environment. * Excellent Linux command\-line skills and strong troubleshooting capability. * Experience supporting **on\-premise, bare\-metal, or hardware\-based infrastructure** . * Good scripting ability, ideally with **Python and/or Shell** . * Experience with configuration management, patching, monitoring, and operational tooling. * Storage experience across **SAN, NAS, multipath, RAID, NVMe, or capacity planning** would be beneficial. * Exposure to **Prometheus, Grafana, Salt, RPMs, Terraform, Git, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, or GCP** would be advantageous. * Financial markets, trading, exchange, or other low\-latency infrastructure experience would be useful but is not essential. * Strong ownership, attention to detail, and the ability to work calmly in a critical production environment. This role offers the opportunity to join a growing **Singapore infrastructure team** supporting highly critical financial markets technology. You will work in a deeply technical, hands\-on environment with exposure to **Linux infrastructure, automation, production reliability, low\-latency systems, and global engineering teams** , with long\-term career development as the business continues to invest in its Singapore capability. Please contact **Andrew Scotts at EC1 Partners** for a confidential discussion.