Linux Administrator

Job Title: Linux Administrator
Location: Stevenage, full time
UK
6 months

£506 per day

Role Overview
The client is seeking an experienced Linux Administrator to work as part of a team in supporting the engineering infrastructure of a large company in the aerospace industry.
Primarily based on Linux across different network layers, The client i supports the infrastructure that provides the engineering teams with allocation of processing, storage and memory for complex simulation activities.
In addition, the team also maintains many applications on the infrastructure, including incident and request management, and maintenance of applications.
In your day-to-day activities, you will interact with fellow Capgemini team members, other suppliers, and various client stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Application support, including installation and upgrades
• Provision of HPC resources (mainly for system engineering, e.g. Matlab)
• Infrastructure administration (Red Hat Linux/Kickstart/VM Ware Systems)
• Information Management, in liaison with support groups (Data Centre Service, Networks)
• Hardware diagnostics
• Shell scripting
• Management, investigation and resolution of support tickets within the SLA
• System updates (applications, middleware, database)

Required Skills & Experience

• Linux Administration: RHEL or similar (very strong practical application and experience)
• Ansible (very strong practical application and experience)
• Network Protocols (strong practical application and experience)
• Git (strong practical application and experience)
• Documentation skills (strong practical application and experience)
• Red Hat IDM
• VMWare
• Podman

Desirable Skills

• Jenkins
• Storage area networks concepts
• Redhat Satellite Server
• Infrastructure monitoring (CheckMK)
• Software install (3rd party software)
• CENTOS (legacy versions)
• Basic Knowledge of Gitlab
• LDAP/Active Directory