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LINUX Engineer (Service Support)

Job type:Perm
Town/City:Stevenage
County:Hertfordshire
Salary/Rate:£42000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Business Sector:IT
Job ref:BBBH152980
Post Date:July 17, 2025

LINUX Engineer (Service Support)

Salary: £45,000 + 10% Allowance + Bonus - Total Compensation circa £50,000

Location : Stevenage - full time on site

Clearance: DV Cleared or DV Clearable. Initially SC Cleared

The Company:

You will join a world class consultancy bringing digital transformation to the MoD. Due to the size and expertise there is excellent scope for training and career progression.

The role:

As Linux Engineer, you will play a crucial role in supporting our live services. You will join our established team providing support to customers IT systems.

This opportunity is a customer facing role, so the most important attributes are for you to be able to work and able to converse well with our customers.

You will support our high-profile customer through the implementation & configuration of complex IT solutions

The role

  • Your role will involve receiving & reviewing customer related system issues via a ticketing system and resolving issues as necessary to ensure we maintain system operational states within the current SLA's & KPI's. Reviewing & producing documentation, recording all processes to enable first time fixes and quick resolutions etc…
  • Monitoring system status and reporting issues quickly to service management and the relevant teams as necessary.
  • You will need to maintain a high level of customer satisfaction by clarifying the customers' needs and ensure they are met whilst working within your agreed support role as defined by your management team.
  • Experience in providing server & application support, using automation, build images, build documents, work instructions, build and configure LINUX Servers, strong Scripting skills.
  • You will be expected to nurture and provide training to junior team members where necessary, which is essential for growing our staff knowledge & skillset.
  • You may also be involved with other work as directed by the Service Delivery Managers and be expected play your part in contributing to new work requirements.
  • This role will require you to become security cleared to a high level. Please visit National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Your Skills

  • Knowledge of Linux systems - Supported legacy Unix OS - Solaris 5.7, 10.x, 11.x
  • RHEL 5.x to 9.x & Debian 10.x , 11.x
  • Linux system administration
  • Scripting - Python, Bash, KSH
  • Automation - Ansible
  • VMWare - Deployment of Hosts, affinity rules setup
  • Backups - NetApp, San & Cohesity
  • Understanding of security frameworks, including device encryption, digital certificates, and anti-virus tools.
  • Understanding of hardware components and their interaction with the Linux operating system
  • Ability to diagnose and resolve system issues, analyse system performance.

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of one stages of interviews.