SEO Linux Systems Administrator - East Kilbride, United Kingdom - Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

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East Kilbride, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Salary:

- £42,500 - £48, London Location Allowance £5,000) (Role may also attract additional allowance)

A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
Job grade:
Senior Executive Officer
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
FCDO
DG Finance & Corporate
Type of role:
Information Technology
Working pattern:
Fulltime, Compressed Hours
Number of jobs available:
2Contents

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East Kilbride, LondonAbout the job

Job summary:

Would you be interested in making a meaningful contribution to the UK's national security, whilst enjoying an enviable work-life balance, 25 days holiday (rising to 30), all with the added benefits of a civil service pension scheme?

You're home.

Whilst we sit in an established government department, the team structure and ethos is dynamic and agile, more akin to a modern tech start-up.

We are pioneering new ways of delivering classified technology services across government, and we're having fun doing it.

Job description:

Rosa is a central government IT system that enables collaborative working at SECRET in a secure environment with the latest technologies.

Rosa provides fixed and mobile SECRET collaboration tools and communications in 166 countries across the globe, allowing users to create and share data securely.

This ground-breaking work is protecting our national security whilst enabling users to work in far better ways than any previous solutions have allowed in this space.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be a part of a growing team in a modern and flexible working environment.

This is a varied and exciting role for an experienced, intelligent and enthusiastic individual looking to drive forward the design and delivery of secure capabilities that will transform the Rosa Service.

Person specification:

Responsibilities

Assist in the implementation of strategic and tactical technology road maps, aligned with both current best practice and the organization.
Work with your Team Lead to engineer technical solutions according to our road maps.
Work, in partnership, with our product owners and operational teams to maintain and integrate technologies with RSO platforms to protect and manage mission critical systems.
Ensure, in partnership with others in the organization, that all technologies within own area meet or exceed the RSO internal and external regulatory requirements.
Produce and maintain documentation of systems for the usage of each technology.
Follow our internal technology development life cycle processes in the development of all technologies.
Develop and follow all applicable operational processes.
Liaise with, any thirdparty partners delivery of components and implement support options for relevant parts of the infrastructure.
Assist the wider team, and organization where required to do so, within in areas of own expertise and experience.
Provide a third line support function for the applicable technologies.
Participate to your full potential in our vibrant, dynamic and exciting team.

Essential Skills

Experience with Linux related technologies such that you are proficient in installation and system administration tasks.
Experience with Linux scripting languages, for example Bash or Python.
Strong, evidence based, troubleshooting abilities and an eye for detail.
Must be a selfstarter and work productively with mínimal supervision alone and in collaboration with own team and others around the organization.
Familiarity in Agile/DevOps working practice within a similarly skilled technical team.
Must demonstrate an enthusiastic, cando approach working productively both alone and in collaboration with team and others around the organization.

Desirable Skills

Experience of opensource monitoring tools such as Nagios or Zabbix.
Experience of opensource automation tools such as puppet, chef, salt or ansible.
A relevant STEM, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or Systems Engineering qualification; or equivalent related qualifications or experience.

Behaviours:

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

Delivering at Pace
Changing and Improving
Making Effective Decisions
Communicating and Influencing

Technical skills:

We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

Red Hat Satellite
Ansible and Ansible Tower
Monitoring
SSL Certificates

Benefits:

Alongside your salary of £42,500, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office contributes £11,475 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
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