About this role
Salary: £60,000 - 90,000 per year
Requirements
- Active, fully transferable DV Clearance
- Extensive experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments
- Strong UNIX/Linux background, including experience with Solaris, HP-UX and AIX
- Experience with VMware, Red Hat Satellite, Kickstart, LDAP, NFS, DNS, LVM, multipathing and shell scripting
- Knowledge of Solaris Zones, LDOMs, Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas File System and Veritas Cluster
- Experience supporting enterprise storage platforms such as EMC, NetApp, IBM and HP
- Automation and DevOps experience using Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub and Packer
- Experience working in ITIL environments and managing incidents, problems and changes through ServiceNow
- Strong troubleshooting and stakeholder management skills
Responsibilities
- Design, implement and support enterprise Linux and UNIX infrastructure
- Install, configure and maintain Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Solaris environments
- Support large-scale server estates across physical and virtual platforms
- Manage operating system patching, upgrades and lifecycle activities
- Administer storage, filesystems, volume management and clustering technologies
- Troubleshoot complex Linux, UNIX, hardware, networking and performance issues
- Support VMware virtualisation and infrastructure services
- Implement automation solutions using tools such as Ansible, Jenkins and GitHub
- Work with network, security, database and application teams to deliver infrastructure projects
- Produce technical documentation, build guides and support procedures
- Participate in infrastructure migrations, server deployments and platform improvements
Technologies
- Ansible
- DevOps
- GitHub
- Hardware
- IBM
- Support
- ITIL
- Jenkins
- LDAP
- Linux
- Network
- NFS
- RHEL
- Security
- ServiceNow
- Unix
- VMware
- UX UI Design
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We are seeking a Linux Infrastructure Engineer to join a highly skilled infrastructure team supporting and delivering complex enterprise Linux and UNIX platforms in a secure environment. The role involves work on high-profile, mission-critical systems across large-scale environments, with a focus on critical infrastructure and highly available systems. It is based in Reading, five days onsite, for an initial six months with potential extension. The rate is up to £750 per day through an approved umbrella company, inside IR35.
last updated 46 week of 2026