Linux Platform Engineer
Bright Purple Resourcing · Bonnyrigg, Scotland ·
Job Description LinuxPlatformEngineer Edinburgh(Hybrid-2daysonsite) InsideIR35Contract-£425-£475p/dAreyouaLinuxspecialistwhoenjoysbuilding,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.