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We are partnered with a reputable global consultancy that are looking for a LINUX OS ENGINEER to work on a very exciting LONG-TERM CONTRACT in the Banking sector.

Role: Linux OS Engineer

Rate: Up to £500 per day (inside IR35)

Style: Hybrid

Duration: 3 months (initially – view to extend)

The Role:

Responsible for all aspects of the *nix estate

Responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing *nix related technologies across the estate

Project delivery

Part of a team providing 24x7 *nix support internationally

Implementation of automated solutions adhering to the strategic goals within the department

Key Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities:

Ensure that all project/investment related workloads are delivered according to plans and defined budgets

Take part in the team rota including on-call and weekend working

Identify savings across project & BAU activities to be implemented through automation involving a process flow of Service Now -> AWX -> Ansible / scripting

Deliver against team BAU responsibilities

Secondary responsibilities:

Take part in daily health and compliance checks for all Production systems as required

Ensure all Linux/Unix systems are backed up successfully and any issues are promptly resolved

Validate monitoring alerts are detected promptly and satisfactorily resolved

Ensure sufficient capacity is available to accommodate projected BAU & project growth

Respond to emails sent to the team distribution list in a timely manner.

Handle incidents and requests with efficiency and a “customer first” mindset

Maintain Linux platforms in a highly available, reliable, secure and performant manner

General maintenance activities

Provide technical support to application support and development teams

Provide consultancy to application support and development teams

Execute disaster recovery procedures when necessary and take part in regular DR tests

Ensure patches and security updates are applied as per defined policies

Maintain all operational procedures to ensure they are current and accurate

Take part in On-Call & weekend work rotation; triaging and addressing production issues as they arise

Identify cost saving and optimisation opportunities across the group.

Build strong working relationships across the organisation

Adhere to the core values of the bank.

Key Skills:

Essential:

* Red Hat and Solaris in-depth – including system internals and kernel tuning.

* Red Hat Satellite

* Ansible

* AWX

* REST API integration

* Scripting

* CI/CD pipelines and other automation concepts

* Dev/Ops mentality

* Git

* Security hardening principles in line with CIS industry benchmarks.

* Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers.

* Good working knowledge of Python, Perl and Bash scripting.

* Clustering and high-availability technologies

* Replication and disaster recovery.

* Security and auditing.

* Excellent knowledge of data security governance and regulations such as GDPR and SOX.

* TCP/IP Networking Protocols.

Highly desirable:

* Service Now automation /integration

* Good working knowledge of GitHub, Subversion and TeamCity

* CyberArk

* Splunk and QRadar

* Qualys

* Salt Stack.

* VxVM and VxFS.

* NFS and CIFS.

* Understanding of DNS

* ESX VMWare

* Nutanix HCI.

* EMC and HDS storage arrays.

* EMC Networker, Data Domain and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager.

If you are interested and have the relevant experience, please apply promptly and we will contact you to discuss it further.

Yilmaz Moore

Senior Delivery Consultant

London | Bristol | Amsterdam