About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Strong experience in enterprise Linux administration and engineering.
- Experience supporting, troubleshooting, and optimising Linux platforms, including within secure or highly assured infrastructure.
- Experience building and maintaining Linux development environments.
- Experience with application and service containerisation, modern deployment approaches, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience working within formal service management and security frameworks and resolving incidents in complex infrastructure environments.
- Ability to collaborate with infrastructure and engineering teams.
- Eligibility for SC clearance; the successful candidate may undergo SC clearance vetting as part of the engagement.
- One or more of the following certifications would be beneficial: RHCSA, RHCE, LFCS, LPIC-1, or LPIC-2.
Responsibilities
- Provide expert technical support as a Linux SME across enterprise Linux environments.
- Support the stability, performance, security, and reliability of Linux-based infrastructure.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex Linux platform issues and incidents.
- Build, maintain, and support Linux-based development environments.
- Support the containerisation of applications and services.
- Support modern deployment approaches alongside traditional infrastructure and platform operations.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and engineering specialists to deliver platform improvements.
- Maintain clear, robust operational and technical documentation.
- Contribute to discussions about environment development, growth, and optimisation.
- Use automation to improve infrastructure efficiency and repeatability.
- Work within established service management, operational, and security frameworks.
Technologies
- Support
- Linux
- Security
- DevOps
More
We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Linux SME to support a major Central Government programme, providing expertise across enterprise Linux platforms in a secure and assured infrastructure. This is a six-month hybrid contract, based in Milton Keynes, with an expectation of working onsite three days per week. The rate is £565 per day. Applications suitable for submission must be received before the Monday 2nd November, 12pm deadline.
last updated 44 week of 2026