# Linux Low Latency Systems Engineer

**Company**: Equity IT
**Location**: Hong Kong, Hong Kong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Linux Low Latency Systems Engineer to join our team at Equity IT, working on a project for Millennium, a global alternative investment firm.

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting and maintaining Linux, virtualization, and related infrastructure as part of a globally deployed engineering team. They will also build, operate, and continuously improve a high-performance, low-latency trading platform in partnership with infrastructure and application support teams.

Key responsibilities include:

- Supporting and maintaining Linux, virtualization, and related infrastructure

- Building, operating, and continuously improving a high-performance, low-latency trading platform

- Identifying, prioritizing, and resolving complex incidents and service requests

- Gathering requirements, evaluating technical options, and implementing solutions aligned with business and platform needs

- Monitoring platform health and performance, investigating latency and performance issues using diagnostic tools

- Delivering stable, repeatable, and high-performing Linux systems through automation and code-driven engineering practices

- Leading technical discussions, communicating clearly with stakeholders, and partnering across engineering, development, and business teams to solve complex problems

The ideal candidate will have:

- 5+ years of hands-on experience in financial technology services, including 3+ years supporting low-latency trading systems and scalable infrastructure

- Deep Linux systems engineering expertise, including performance tuning, low-latency networking, Solarflare OpenOnload, multicast networking, cgroups/cpusets, kernel parameters, and BIOS-level tuning

- Hands-on experience with enterprise server platforms, VMware ESXi/vCenter, networking, DNS, and time-synchronization services including NTP, PTP, PPS, and WR

- NVIDIA GPU/CUDA experience for Linux infrastructure and performance-sensitive workloads

- Experience using AI assistants in daily engineering work, including troubleshooting, coding/scripting, terminal workflows, and operational automation

- Strong Python and Bash scripting skills, with Ansible configuration-management experience; Chef, Puppet, and Terraform are a plus

## Skills

### Required
- Linux
- low-latency trading systems
- scalable infrastructure
- Linux systems engineering
- performance tuning
- low-latency networking
- Solarflare OpenOnload
- multicast networking
- cgroups/cpusets
- kernel parameters
- BIOS-level tuning
- enterprise server platforms
- VMware ESXi/vCenter
- networking
- DNS
- time-synchronization services
- NTP
- PTP
- PPS
- WR
- NVIDIA GPU/CUDA
- Python
- Bash scripting
- Ansible configuration-management

### Nice to have
- Chef
- Puppet
- Terraform
- cloud-platform experience
- Windows–Linux interoperability exposure
- RHCE

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