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