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Sector: Public Sector / Government
Job Title: Senior Linux Engineer
Type: Contractor
Location: London/Glasgow (Hybrid)
Duration: 6-12 Months
Rate: Competitive (Inside IR35)
Vetting: SC security clearance or eligible for fast track, with a view to obtaining DV
Role Overview
The Senior Linux Engineer (Contractor) will deliver advanced technical expertise across enterprise Linux environments to ensure stability, security, and performance. The role focuses on engineering delivery, sprint participation, automation, troubleshooting, and platform improvements. The contractor is expected to work autonomously and deliver high-quality output aligned to sprint commitments and project timelines.
Key Responsibilities
- Responsible for maintaining operational SLA’s for Linux infrastructure incidents across the service, involving both physical and virtual servers, DNS, NTP, RHEL Directory Services, Proxy, database, Satellite infrastructure.
- Working with Ansible Core to automate within the environment.
- Responsible for monitoring, alerting, and maintenance of the Linux Infrastructure across all environments.
- Working in support of BAU and Project implementation activities. Ensuring the relevant artefacts are in place for the team to be able to support, Project and BAU activities.
- Implement strategic and technical roadmaps for the aligned Linux Infrastructure and hosted applications. Ensuring infrastructure is kept up to date.
- Ensure that all new components and installations meet or exceed the internal and regulatory requirements.
- Work within the wider organisation’s DevOps strategy to provide automated solutions where possible, working with applications running in Kubernetes or Docker clusters.
- Own responsibility for changes across the environment within your technical discipline and ensure they are implemented according to agreed business processes.
- Monitor trends to be able to proactively respond to issues to support the business needs.
- Develop the creation of documentation, processes, and policies to ensure necessary governance and reporting is in place.
- Responsible for all Incident, Problem, and Risk Management within your technical discipline.
- Assisting more junior team members with learning and development as required.
- Liaise with vendors and product owners on product support and product roadmaps.
- Collaborate with the other Engineers across the Engineering function and support on initiatives as needed.
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Essential Skills
- Experience in a similar Senior Engineer role in Linux Engineering in a complex IT Infrastructure.
- Acting as a senior technical Linux resource across the engineering function.
- Experience with virtualized networking principles and platforms (VMware/Hyper-V).
- Experience with containers, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Advanced experience with Bash and Python.
- Good understanding of common services, applications, and protocols, for example HTTPS, SSH, DNS, NTP, and SSL.
- Experience with open-source Ansible automation tooling.
- Good understanding of troubleshooting Linux issues to 4th line.
- Demonstrable experience of Agile / DevOps working practices.
- Experience of systems monitoring infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of Confluence, Jira, and JSM.
- Sound understanding of database technologies, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL.
- Manage Linux certificates across the environment.
- Good experience of squid.
- Responsible for driving all system upgrades across Linux tooling.
- Good understanding across IT On-Prem and Cloud-based infrastructure.
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Desirable Skills
- Relevant Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security, or Systems Engineering qualification, or equivalent related qualifications or experience.
- Experience working in a Cloud Infrastructure Environment; AWS, Azure, GCP.
The role operates on a hybrid / remote basis with occasional travel between sites. Some out-of-hours work may be required for maintenance or incident response.
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