Senior Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer
We are a Global Recruitment specialist that provides support to the clients across EMEA, APAC, US and Canada. We have an excellent job opportunity for you.
Role Title: Senior Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer
Location: Stevenage (Hybrid)
Duration: Until 30/06/2026
Pay Rate: £681 per day through FCSA Umbrella
Job Description:
A regular presence on site is preferred not mandatory without periods of heavy support/presence on site and abroad should be expected.
Role Description:
Required Knowledge (this will be the job)
Git for version control of scripts
Ansible for configuration control
Autoinstall or similar for system deployment
Ubuntu 20+ or similar Debian derivatives as OS
Podman or similar containerisation
w/hardware passthrough for graphical applications on unsupported hardware/software (ie Nvidia K2000 on RHEL 6 and co)
w/hardware emulation ie QEMU
Used for development and for service hosting
Configuration/installation of physical machines and the required support hardware (racking machines, spec racks w/acoustic dampening, spec power delivery/UPS, spec network requirements, etc)
Architecture design and implementation of an IT system.
Project context:
Our exploration rover breadboarding and telecoms satellite infrastructure is using increasingly IM unsupported tools and services (be that older systems, newer systems, OS/software that IT simply don't support etc.) raising a need to manage more and more of this internal to the site/project/department where we either want to be on more recent tooling (breadboarding) or maintain older tooling for spacecraft projects whose lifespan is in the tens of years and is expected to remain fixed.
The role is to support this infrastructure in both the GNC and software teams as the projects require, this will involve responsibility for maintaining/extending but may in the case of older systems require learning/understanding the current infrastructure before making substantial adjustments/redeployments.
Our current implementation on breadboarding relies on Ansible executing against a variety of different hosts performing operations from install/update/upgrade packages thru host environment configuration thru checkout and build internal projects from source for deployment on host or in containers.
Expect to be working with a range of hosts on breadboarding (industrial PCs, Workstation PCs, VMs) that need as much commonality but each have their own quirks (ie not all the industrial PCs can be expected to have consistent network access and will travel out into the field with the rover).
The telecoms side is far more consistent with tens of VMs that need to and can be maintained as identical environments.
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more, please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.