Job Description
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Senior Linux / Unix Engineer
12-Month Fixed Term Contract | London (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
An opportunity for an experienced, hands-on Linux Engineer to join a lean infrastructure team supporting business-critical systems in a BAU-heavy environment.
This is a replacement hire, ideal for someone who enjoys ownership, stability work, and improving automation within traditional on-prem estates, with exposure to cloud as the platform evolves.
Key responsibilities
* Support and maintain RHEL and Solaris environments (100-200 VMs)
* BAU support, incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
* Build, patch, upgrade, and lifecycle management of Linux/Unix servers
* Improve automation and reduce manual operational tasks
* Support infrastructure for critical financial applications
* Participate in occasional weekend project work and a light on-call rota
Technical environment
* RHEL 7/8/9, Solaris 11
* Ansible automation
* Python and/or Bash scripting
* Docker / Podman containers
* Grafana and monitoring tools
* Predominantly on-prem, with early AWS adoption underway
Skills & experience required
* Strong senior-level Linux/Unix administration experience
* Hands-on experience with Ansible and scripting (Python/Bash)
* Comfortable working in lean teams with high ownership
* Experience supporting production environments and BAU workloads
* Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS preferred) is beneficial but not essential
Working pattern & benefits
* 12-month fixed term contract
* Hybrid working: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote
* Light on-call requirement (approx. 1-2 calls per month)
* Technically varied role with genuine ownership
* Opportunity to influence automation and future cloud direction
Interview process
* Team interview
* Face-to-face interview
* HR conversation
Interviews commencing mid-late next week. xsngvjr
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.