Linux Engineer - Stevenage, United Kingdom - Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria

Verified Company

Stevenage, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Are you a Linux Engineer who can build, configure and troubleshoot Linux Servers?

This role is hybrid working, it is 3 days on site per week, 2 days working from home. You must be commutable to one of our sites - Stevenage OR Portsmouth OR Newport.

The role of the Linux Engineer is to manage the day to day function and overall lifecycle of the clients Unix/Linux server estate.

This role will involve supporting end-to-end provisioning, operation, monitoring, managing and decommissioning of physicaland virtual servers or server farms, with different OS(Linux/Unix predominantly, but Windows as a secondary), along the whole lifecycle.

It will also involve regular patching, updates and ensuring compliance standards are maintained and producing report outputs from management tools to verify compliance.

In the future state, there may be scope for an increase in automation in management, deploymentand operations of servers, PoCs for cloud-like functionality and edge datacentres and looking into providing a solution for in-memory computing.

What you will be doing:

Maintains records of current server configurations
Ensure physical servers remain in support with hardware manufacturers updates
Proactively monitor server use and performance
Maintenance and production of technical documentation to facilitate knowledge share and skills development
Commission additional servers as required
Lockdown and secure the administration of servers
Disaster Recovery Planning

We you will bring:

Experience in Linux/Unix administration
Experience in change delivery and capacity planning
Working experience with Anti-Virus within Linux OS
Virtualisation experience within a VMware environment
Install and assemble server hardware
Install and configure OS (physical & virtual) including updates and patches
Understanding of Linux Operating Systems RedHat Enterprise and CentOS

It would be great if you had:

Red Hat Satellite & Ansible
Experience involving multiple Operating System vendors
Knowledge of HPE Storage Technologies (FC/iSCSI/NFS protocols)
Knowledge of LAN/WAN Technologies
Willing to work out of hours and attend remote sites
Experience in increasing automation in management, deployment, and operations of servers, providing PoCs for cloudlike functionality and edge datacentres and looking into providing a solution for inmemory computing
RHCSA certification on RedHat
Working knowledge of Atlassian tools such as Confluence and Jira
Knowledge of Monitoring tools such as Check MK/Nagios/Splunk
Experience in Ansible Tower

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you

**Employment Type: Full-time

Location:
Stevenage OR Portsmouth OR Newport

Security Clearance Level:
Must be eligible for Security Clearance

Internal Recruiter:
Josh

Salary:
£45,000 to £50, k on call allowance
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund**
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