Linux Platform Engineer

LinuxPlatformEngineer Edinburgh(Hybrid-2daysonsite) InsideIR35Contract-£425-£475p/d
AreyouaLinuxspecialistwhoenjoysbuilding,securingandautomatingenterpriseinfrastructure? We'repartneringwithanEdinburghbasedSaaSbusinesslookingforanexperiencedLinuxPlatformEngineertojointheinfrastructureteam.You'llplayakeyroleinmaintainingandevolvingalarge-scaleLinuxestate,supportingbusiness-criticalplatformsusedbythousandsofcustomersacrosstheUK. Thisisahandsonengineeringrolewhereyou'llworkacrossLinuxadministration,automation,virtualisationandmoderninfrastructuretechnologiestoimprovereliability,securityandperformance.
Whatyou'llbedoing:

• AdministerandsupportenterpriseLinuxenvironments.
• Managepatching,kernelupdates,LVMandfilesystemadministration.
• MaintainpackagerepositoriesandlifecyclemanagementthroughForeman.
• SupportVMwareESXivirtualinfrastructure,templates,snapshotsandBAUoperations.
• Configureandmanagehostnetworkingincludingfirewalldandiptables.
• AdministeridentityservicesincludingSSSD,LDAPandActiveDirectoryintegration.
• DevelopandmaintainautomationusingAnsibleandAWX.
• HelpmoderniselegacyapplicationsusingPodmancontainers.
• SupportarangeofcoreplatformservicesincludingRedis,RabbitMQ,MongoDB,Elasticsearch,MySQL,Memcache,PostfixandHAProxy.
• Contributetoplatformimprovements,securityinitiativesandoperationalexcellence.

Whatwe'relookingfor:

• StrongcommercialLinuxadministrationexperience,ideallyacrossRHEL,CentOSorAlmaLinux.
• Experiencewithpatching,kerneltuning,LVMandfilesystemmanagement.
• VMwareESXiadministrationexperience.
• KnowledgeofForemanforpackageandrepositorymanagement.
• ExperiencewithAnsibleandAWXautomation.
• Strongnetworkingknowledgeincludingfirewalldandiptables.
• IdentitymanagementexperienceusingLDAP,ActiveDirectoryandSSSD.
• Exposuretocontainertechnologies,ideallyPodman.
• Experiencesupportingenterprisemiddlewareandinfrastructureservices.

Ifyou'reanexperiencedLinuxengineerlookingforyournextcontractinEdinburgh,we'dlovetohearfromyou.