Linux Systems Engineer

Linux Systems Engineer | 6 Month Contract | (Inside IR35) | Hybrid, Glasgow, 3 days pw | Starting ASAP

Day Rate: £550

About the Role:

• Join a team of skilled and experienced technologists tasked with maintaining and enhancing our large scale, globally deployed RedHat Linux-based platform.
• Develop and maintain components on a global level, working with operational counterparts and customers to prioritize and execute on enhancements, extensions and remediation in these critical components of our infrastructure.
• Use declarative configuration-as-code principles and extensive automation across a mixture of strategic engineering and design projects.
• Add features, manage, and tune configuration, and perform deep-level troubleshooting of the existing Linux platform management systems and Linux O/S configuration and builds.
• Input to the design and implementation of new solutions to support the fast-paced, dynamic needs of the business.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Expert knowledge of Linux, including familiarity with UNIX system calls, and low-level O/S and network protocols.
• Experience of using any modern config management system (examples such as Salt Stack, Puppet, or Chef) to automate management of a large-scale Linux deployment.
• Ability to write robust, maintainable code in Python
• Effective troubleshooting skills across hardware, O/S, network, and storage.
• Knowledge and experience of Linux patching processes, especially automation of testing and deployment
• Ability to convey complex technical topics to a non-technical audience

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience working in a large, multi-national enterprise in any industry vertical, showing experience of communicating and collaborating in globally distributed teams.
• Enthusiasm for modern development tools and practices including Git, Jenkins, automated testing, and continuous integration.
• Experience of designing, implementing and supporting large scale production IaaS platforms, working with virtualisation and other private cloud technologies
• Knowledge of building and managing containerised software in a secure manner.
• As a reference point, contributors to open source projects would be an ideal fit.
• Knowledge of other programming languages, such as Perl, C, or C++

This role has been deemed Inside IR35 by the client. Applicants must hold, or be happy to apply for, a valid Basic Disclosure Scotland.