Linux Engineer (Newcastle Upon Tyne)

Head Resourcing are recruiting for a Linux engineer for a financial services company. This role is predominantly remote although ideally you will be near one of the hubs in Gosforth or Glasgow for occasional office attendance.

The role pays £39,000 - £49,000 and offers a range of great benefits . The role will require some occasional weekend/evening work where you will receive additional pay on top of the base salary.

The role involves:

• Innovating, supporting and maintaining the companies Linux server estate for Operational Platform.
• Supporting the management of Patching lifecycles, including scheduling, deployment & verification.
• Engineering, validating, implementing and quality assuring technical solutions.
• Supporting projects implementing new infrastructure into the datacentres.
• Supporting root cause analysis and remediation of issues.
• Working closely with others to estimate work, manage domain scope, risks and issues.
• Collaborating with project teams to ensure that change within the environment is managed and controlled effectively.

Experience required:

• Strong sys admin skills and engineering experience of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Satellite (install, Configure, manage)
• Experience of server implementation, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring and automation (Infrastructure as Code) with Ansible, AAP
• VMware (upgrade, manage)
• Understanding of Networking Technologies
• Python, Bash, API’s and data structures in JSON/YAML or other

Benefits

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year .
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Excellent pension, with a minimum employer contribution of 8%
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness