Infrastructure Engineer - Stevenage, United Kingdom - Sopra Steria

Sopra Steria

Verified Company

Stevenage, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Do you have experience administrating in Unix/Linux?

The role of the Infrastructure 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,deployment and 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
Install and assemble server hardware
Install and configure OS (physical & virtual) including updates and patches
Connect servers to the client network and configure server interfaces

We you will bring:

Experience in Linux/Unix administration
Experience in change delivery and capacity planning
Virtualisation experience within a VMware environment
Knowledge of administering and deploying virtual instances and physical systems
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
RHCSA certification on RedHat
Working knowledge of Atlassian tools such as Confluence and Jira
Knowledge of Monitoring tools such as CheckMK/Nagios/Splunk

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

Security Clearance Level:
Must be eligible for security clearance

Internal Recruiter:
Josh

Salary:
£40,000 to £45, k on call allowance
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund**
Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company?
Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients.

The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privilegedenvironment.

We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other.

We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work forthe customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety
- and security-critical markets.

Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros.

We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, alongwith supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support.

Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies.