Linux DevOps Engineer

AR226 - Linux DevOps Engineer

Location: Shrivenham, Swindon

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000

Overview:

First Military Recruitment are currently seeking a Linux DevOps Engineer on behalf of one of our clients.

You will be part of a small, agile and talented team responsible for developing, building and supporting of Linux and open source solutions within a secure managed services context along with diagnosing and resolving problems with existing Linux infrastructure.

Our client encourages applications from ex-military personnel however all candidates will be given due consideration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Design and improve our secure Linux hosted offerings over multiple platforms.
• Support the development and implementation of Open Source and DevOps tooling for use internally and with our customers.
• Provide 3rd line technical support and fault resolution to 1st/2nd line support teams.
• Provide technical advice, and act as a focal point for technical personnel within their area of responsibility.
• Help drive adoption of automation tooling throughout the business.
• Understanding and knowledge of Agile/Scrum working practices.
• DevOps toolsets, Linux OS deployments and maintenance.
• A working knowledge of TCP/IP Networking.
• Knowledge and understanding of OS security hardening techniques.

Skills and Qualifications:

• A minimum of 2 years' experience working within a Linux engineering environment and a working experience of DevOps.
• Enterprise Linux OS (Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle).
• CI/CD pipelines.
• DevOps toolsets including Terraform, Git, Packer and Vault.
• Configuration management - Ansible or Puppet.
• Database administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB or InfluxDB).
• Discipline to follow ITIL best practices and ISO9001, ISO20000, & ISO27001 certifications.
• Discipline to follow development and deployment best practices.
• Analytical & Problem solving skills.
• Excellent Time Management & organisational skills.
• A flexible approach to work at all times and the commitment to ensure tasks are completed to deadline.
• Work autonomously or as part of a Team.
• Prepared to travel when necessary to customer site or other locations.
• Ability to obtain (without restrictions) Security Clearance to at least SC level.
• Desirable:
• Network technologies (LAN, WAN, Cisco switching, Juniper and Fortinet security products) and working knowledge of TCP/IP networking.
• Virtualisation management experience - VMware, XenServer, OpenStack or Hyper-V.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes or Openshift.
• Red Hat Satellite.
• Linux PKI.
• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator or equivalent experience.
• Red Hat Satellite.
• Kubernetes Certified Administrator.
• VMware Cloud Native Master Specialist.

Location: Shrivenham, Swindon

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000