Global Head of Linux Infrastructure Support

We are partnering with a highly sophisticated, technology-driven hedge fund seeking a Global Head of Linux Infrastructure Support to lead a critical function responsible for the stability, performance, and scalability of firmwide trading infrastructure.

This is a high-impact leadership role offering the opportunity to shape global support strategy, drive automation, and oversee mission-critical environments within a fast-paced, performance-sensitive business.

The Role

You will lead a globally distributed organisation with regional leadership across APAC, EMEA, and North America, supporting a complex estate spanning platform applications and core Unix server environments.

Working closely with specialist teams across Observability, Scheduling & Orchestration, Development Tooling, Compute, Storage, Linux Engineering, and DevOps, you will play a central role in ensuring the resilience and operational excellence of the firm's trading infrastructure., * Setting the vision, policies, and operational roadmap for global infrastructure support

• Driving automation, self-service capabilities, and operational maturity across the function
• Ensuring service levels are achieved while scaling to meet evolving business demands
• Empowering teams through strong leadership, training, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Coordinating technical efforts across multiple engineering groups
• Leading major incident and outage recovery with a calm, structured approach
• Remaining technically credible, with the ability to engage deeply when required

• Proven experience leading technology teams, ideally at a global scale
• Strong Linux/Unix administration background (RHEL/CentOS/OEL preferred)
• Strategic mindset with a strong customer-service orientation
• Track record of driving automation within infrastructure or support teams
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices, including observability, orchestration, containerization, automated testing, deployment pipelines, and configuration management.
• ITIL knowledge is a plus
• Experience within a compute heavy infrastructure environment i.e. Low Latency Trading or Big tech
• Bachelor's degree

• Collaborative, high-calibre engineering environment
• Leading compensation and benefits
• Opportunity to influence the direction of a globally critical function

If you are a technology leader with expertise in Linux Infrastructure looking to operate at scale within a performance-driven environment, we would welcome a confidential conversation. ","identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"eFinancialCareers","propertyID":"JobId","value":56662751},"datePosted":"2026-03-17T16:27:38.000Z","validThrough":"2026-04-28T23:55:00.000Z","employmentType":"FULL_TIME","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"eFinancialCareers","sameAs":""},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"London","addressRegion":"South East