Linux Administrator

Linux Administrator

+ 6 month initial contract

+ Hertfordshire based with some remote work

+ £70 to £76 per hour

+ Inside IR35

+ SC Cleared role

Key Skills:

+ Ansible playbooks and roles

+ Shell Scripting (bash/python/perl/ksh...)

+ Revision control tools e.g. Git, Subversion (SVN), Bitbucket, Mercurial

+ RHEL Administration

Job Summary

Working for a major company within the UK space & cyber security sectors. The post holder will join a project team as the key engineer responsible for the development of that project's Red Hat solution - an essential underpinning IT infrastructure capability for the project

Key responsibilities:

+ Developing a build environment with Satellite and Ansible

+ Deploying and configuring servers using this build environment

Job Profile

Specific Responsibilities/Tasks, within the project:

• Develop and implement a build environment.

• Deploy and configuring servers.

• Document the deployment platform and server configuration.

• Security hardening systems.

• Work with business stakeholders to identify their requirements and expected outcome.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information.

• Identify the right tools to deliver an appropriate solution.

• Work with other IT teams to support service integration, and retention requirements based on the input of the business.

• Work with Security to ensure that solutions comply with regulatory and security policies.

Essential -

• Experience developing and improving Ansible playbooks and roles; specifically as part of a build process.

• Shell Scripting (bash/python/perl/ksh...)

• Revision control tools e.g. Git, Subversion (SVN), Bitbucket, Mercurial

• RHEL Administration

• Management of Red Hat Satellite

• An understanding of TCP/IP networking

• Experience supporting systems running databases

• Linux administrator of at least 5 years of experience

Desirable -

• Implementation of Linux Directory Services (LDAP), specifically with respect to Linux/Windows integration

• LVM

• OS Hardening

• Storage products (Netapp/EVA)

• VMWARE