Infrastructure Linux Engineer - Remote / UNIX
| Job Title: | Infrastructure Linux Engineer - Remote / UNIX |
| Contract Type: | Contract |
| Location: | Cardiff |
| Industry: | |
| Salary: | £500 - £550 per day |
| Start Date: | ASAP |
| Duration: | 3-6 months |
| REF: | 17320 |
| Contact Name: | Ellie Walker |
| Contact Email: | ellie.walker@gsatechsource.com |
| Job Published: | 20 days ago |
Job Description
This role can be fully remote.
Main duties and responsibilities:
- Supporting and administering the UNIX and Linux Infrastructure (Solaris & RedHat), managing technical escalations and driving continuous improvement.
- Provide in depth technical support and low level design activities for complex projects and operational processes as required, ensuring the productivity and effectiveness of the company’s technology.
- Design and implementation of enhancements and new services.
- Deployment and configuration of new services.
- Conceiving, managing and implementing strategic projects and initiatives.
- Monitoring core systems, propose improvements, interface with vendors for system support and functional development
- Partner with the Operational Support Teams to handle escalated tickets, providing support and coaching.
- Undertake Problem Management and root cause analysis.
- Engage in regular scheduled maintenance activities.
- Implementation and testing of disaster recovery plans, engaging in regular exercises.
- Maintain effective vendor management relations and documentation.
- The position will require occasional out of hours implementation work.
Skills/attributes required:
- Experience supporting enterprise services at 3rd line supporting a highly available enterprise environment.
- Proficient with Linux, preferably Red Hat, and a good understanding of Solaris.
- Proven experience in deployment of Data Centre Technologies
- A working knowledge of SANs.
- Experience supporting and maintaining VMware vSphere 6.x
- A good understanding of Network Protocols.
- Experience and practical knowledge with scripting languages and Automation – Bash, Perl, Python, Ansible
- Desire to take ownership for products and deliver exceptional service and stability to expand the business
- Willingness to learn and work as part of a diverse skillset team
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, responsiveness and creativity, flexibility, ability to plan and organize
- Excellent collaboration and customer service skills
- Ability to operate independently in a dynamic environment with multifunctional teams
- Willingness to support operations and handle on-call duties as needed
- Ability to work flexibly when required
- Experience working in an ITIL environment and an understanding of key ITIL Service Management Areas
- Financial Institution background
- Relevant RedHat certification
- Experience with Splunk, F5, Squid, NGINX, Apache, Apache TomCat, Kubernetes.
This role is inside IR35.
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