Unix/Linux Engineer
£45000 - 52000 GBP
Onsite WORKING
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands - United Kingdom Type: Permanent
Unix/Linux Engineer
Location: Barrow-in-Furness (5 days a week on-site)
Salary: £52,000
Clearance: Eligibilty for enhanced Security Clearance
Our client is a leading technology and engineering consultancy supporting mission-critical projects across defence, engineering, and secure infrastructure programmes in the UK. They're looking for a Unix/Linux Engineer to join their on-site operations team in Barrow, maintaining and supporting complex systems that underpin national-level projects.
The role
This position will see you providing day-to-day support and maintenance for Unix and Linux environments (Solaris and Red Hat), ensuring high system availability, rapid issue resolution, and compliance with security standards. You'll handle incident management, performance tuning, and patching, as well as contribute to documentation and knowledge sharing across the team.
The role is based on-site in Barrow five days a week due to the secure nature of the work, and you'll participate in a rostered on-call schedule to support critical operations.
Key responsibilities
1. Monitor, mainta...