Infrastructure Engineer – Linux Engineer Full Time

La Fosse Associates

Position – Infrastructure Engineer – Linux

Location – London (3 days a week in the office)

Salary – £55,000 to £65,000 + Benefits

Background:

I am looking for a skilled Red Hat/Centos Linux engineer who is experienced in working in an enterprise environment, and has strong technical, organisational and communication skills.

Main Accountabilities:

• Monitor performance, troubleshoot problems and outages, schedule upgrades and provide continual improvement to your area of responsibility.
• Designing and implementing new solutions and improvements to the resilience of the current environment
• Ensure all platforms are maintained to a supportable stable version
• Ensure all platforms are secure, working within our security team to ensure that systems are updated as and when necessary, and implementing any urgent fixes/mitigations responding to threats as they arise.
• Designing and creating Linux infrastructure as code and in the cloud (AWS and Azure)
• Create and maintain scripts to automate administrative procedures
• Provide Out of hours cover as part of a rota

You must:

• Have an understanding of the challenges of supporting a large 24/7 operation
• Be an expert in Linux administration, ideally within an enterprise environment handling 200+ servers
• Red Hat Linux certification preferred
• Good practical experience of configuration managers (Ansible)
• Strong scripting, system security and automation skills (Desirable)