Job Reference: SC/HQ50721
Job Duration: 6 months
Start date: ASAP
Description:
* Senior Linux Engineer
* Up to £500 per day - Inside IR35
* 6 month contract
* Ideally we are looking for someone to travel to Cambridge 1-2 days per week BUT we are flexible so if you're only looking for fully remote roles please keep reading!Working for a global Software Design company we are looking for an experienced Senior Linux Engineer who will be responsible for follow-the-sun global operations and management of the Linux Platforms as well as project work.
Working closelywith team leads, team managers, project managers, and engineering teams across Global Infrastructure & Platforms (GI&P)infrastructure domains, you will be a key contributor in deploying, maintaining and supporting various flavor of OS, Platforms services and multi vendor hardware break fix.
You'll need to bring a positive team player, enthusiastic, self-starter andflexible attitude in applying different techniques to help drive successful outcomes. You are also expected to bring fresh thinking and ideas, inspired by other successful programs you have part of. You thrive working across geographical and cultural boundaries and will travel as appropriate to other sites as/when needed; sometimes at short notice.
What you will be accountable for:
You will collaborate with technical leaders and contributors as you provide contributions to common goals. You willfocus on the thorough implementation, improvement, and lifecycles of Linux based systems, services and tools provided by our suppliers and utilized within our team to ensure our SLAs are met and the team's over-all effort is consistent and efficient.
Additionally, you will be responsible for:
* Build, upgrade, configure and deploy Linux based physical servers from scratch to support HPC infrastructure and services
* Maintain the availability of production environment by proactive monitoring for improved reliability and efficiency
* Provide primary operational support of RHEL OS, Dell, HPE, Fujitsu hardware to maintain large scale HPC Clusters globally
* Build, configure, maintain and improve various Infrastructure services such as LDAP, HAProxy, Bind DNS / DHCP, SMTP and other
* Maintain OME tools to support various hardware such as Dell, HP, Fujitsu for its lifecyclemanagement, BIOS / firmware update and server management and improvements
* Coordinate & collaborate with the various Global & Infrastructure team to ensure a value driven road-map and strategy are established, prioritized and addressed
* A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, performance bottlenecks, other issues or inefficiencies and work towards automating and fixing issues
* Build clear and concise documentation, share information and conduct knowledge transferamong members of various towers
What skill, experience, and qualifications will you bring?
Required:
* Advanced or expert level Linux administration skills, performance tuning, system deployment, PXE boot, hardware configuration and management
* Hands-on experience with Linux based server deployment and services like Bind DNS, DHCP, LDAP, HAProxy
* Hands-on experience with Infrastructure tools like Foreman, Puppet, Ansible, Git, vCenter, ESXi, HAProxy, Bluecat Bind DNS, NLYTE
* Hands-onexperience with scripting language and automating repeated tasks using (CSH, BASH, PYTHON) or any other programming language* Solid understanding and experience in monitoring and alerting tools like PRTG, Nagios and other snmp based incident management* Hands-on experience with vendor OEM operation tools like Dell OME, HP OneView and Fujitsu ISM
Preferred:
* Experience with Information Technology Service Management tools like ServiceNow and Jira
Industry: IT
Salary: £450 - £500 per day
Salary Benefits:
Vacancy Type: Contract
Job Skills: Linux
Contact Name: Samantha Cole
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