Linux Platform Engineer
Bright Purple Resourcing ·
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.
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