Senior Linux System Administrator

Linux Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) – Contract 📍 Glasgow 💷 £550 per day 📅 3 days per week onsite 📄 Inside IR35

We are looking for an experienced Linux Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join a high-performing infrastructure support team focused on maintaining and improving critical platform reliability within a large-scale enterprise environment.

This position will focus on resolving hardware and platform-related incidents escalated from the L3 support team. The successful candidate will have strong Linux systems expertise, hands-on server troubleshooting experience, and a proactive approach to operational improvement, automation, and incident reduction.

Key Responsibilities Investigate and resolve Linux infrastructure and hardware-related incidents Perform advanced Linux systems administration and troubleshooting Support remote server recovery and diagnostics using out-of-band management technologies Manage incidents end-to-end, including triage, mitigation, escalation, communication, and resolution Create and maintain operational runbooks and technical documentation Identify recurring issues and implement improvements to reduce MTTD and MTTR Work closely with engineering and operations teams to improve system reliability and resilience Participate in post-incident reviews and root cause analysis

Essential Skills & Experience Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience Knowledge of server hardware including disks, RAID/HBA, NICs, and firmware Experience with iDRAC, iLO, IPMI, Redfish, or similar remote management tools Proven experience supporting production infrastructure environments Understanding of SRE principles including SLOs, SLIs, MTTD, and MTTR Strong communication and stakeholder management skills Excellent documentation and process improvement experience

Desirable Skills Scripting and automation experience with Bash or Python Familiarity with VMware, KVM, Docker, or Kubernetes Experience with monitoring, observability, and alerting platforms