Linux Platform Engineer

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.TPBN1_UKTJ