Senior Linux Engineer

Summer-Browning Associates are currently supporting our Central Government client are who seeking a Senior Linux Engineer for an initial 12 month assignment
Location: Glasgow (hybrid)

Skills and Experience

• Experience in a similar Senior Engineer role in Linux Engineering in a complex IT Infrastructure.
• Acting as a senior technical Linux resource across the engineering function.
• Experience with virtualized networking principles and platforms (VMware/Hyper-V).
• Advanced experience with Bash and Python.
• Good understanding of common services, applications and protocols, for example SSH, DNS, NTP and SSL.
• Experience with open-source Ansible automation tooling.
• Good understanding of troubleshooting Linux issues to 4th line.
• Demonstratable experience of Agile / DevOps working practices.
• Experience of systems monitoring infrastructure.
• Working knowledge of Confluence, Jira and JSM.
• Sound understanding of database technologies, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL.
• Manage Linux certificates across the environment.
• Good experience of squid.
• Responsible for driving all system upgrades across Linux tooling.
• Good understanding across IT On-Prem and Cloud based infrastructure.

Desirable

• You will have relevant Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or Systems Engineering qualification, or equivalent related qualifications or experience.
• Experience working in a Cloud Infrastructure Environment; AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Experience with managing CEPH Storage or Linux storage environments.

NB: Active SC/DV level vetting would be advantageous due to the nature of the project.

To apply, please submit latest CV for consideration

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