Linux Engineer in London

Linux Engineer
6 Months
Hybrid - London & Remote

Main Purpose of the Role:

* Responsible for managing, maintaining, and enhancing Linux 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

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.
Skills and Experience:

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
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* 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
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* 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.

Desirable:

* IBM Tivoli and Netcool
* Active Directory, LDAP and Kerberos
* BMC Control-M
* SharePoint, JIRA and Confluence.
* Working knowledge of cloud computing - IaaS, PaaS and SaaS offerings across Azure, AWS, GCP and Oracle.

Personal Requirements:

* Excellent problem-solving skills
* Excellent communication skills
* Results driven, with a strong sense of accountability
* A proactive, motivated approach
* The ability to operate with urgency and prioritise work accordingly
* A structured and logical approach to work
* Attention to detail
* Ability to perform well in a pressurised environment

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.