Job Description
Are you a Junior Linux Engineer with an interest in Defence looking to further your career?
A Linux engineer is required to join the Linux team within the server team operational umbrella. The individual should be diligent in their work and able to work as part of a busy a diverse team, delivering day to day effort alongside project workload where required. We are looking for someone who wants to build on their Linux systems and service understanding, or to take their first step and apply a basic understanding into their new job role.
Responsibilities:
Essential Skills:
Desirable Skills:
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!
Employment Type - Full Time, Permanent
Location - Salisbury or Portsmouth with hybrid working options
Security Clearance Level - must be eligible for SC
Internal Recruiter - Lee Brown
Salary £38-41k
Benefits 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company?
Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.
Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
A Linux engineer is required to join the Linux team within the server team operational umbrella. The individual should be diligent in their work and able to work as part of a busy a diverse team, delivering day to day effort alongside project workload where required. We are looking for someone who wants to build on their Linux systems and service understanding, or to take their first step and apply a basic understanding into their new job role.
Responsibilities:
- Basic Linux understanding and a working knowledge of the linux O/S (Centos/Redhat preferred)
- Report and technically assist with the management of the linux environments, ensuring service is running and available
- Maintain knowledge on technical subjects relevant to role
- Ensure Change management is followed at all times
- Exposure to an ITIL environment would be an advantage
Essential Skills:
- The Infrastructure Engineer will have good working knowledge of their technology area.
- Good working knowledge and experience of associated infrastructure engineering tools, techniques, methods within their specialist area.
- Demonstrable experience of working as an Infrastructure Engineer on small or medium sized software engineering projects.
- Infrastructure skills covering administration, fault finding/diagnosis and fix.
- Experience within a customer support environment.
- Documentation Skills, with the ability to produce documents for use by an end user, as well as operational procedure documentation for use by service desk personnel.
- Extensive work experience in infrastructure Management
- Experienced in MS Exchange 2010\16 Experienced in VMWare\ HyperV \ ESX Experienced In Remote access \ VPN Experienced in Windows Server 2012 \ 2016 AD \ GPO \ PowerShell
Desirable Skills:
- Experience of: File/Print Clusters an advantage, enterprise level thin client environments an advantage, messaging systems an advantage, working to tight SLA's
Accreditation to MCP level or equivalent. - Diploma in Computer Sciences
If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!
Employment Type - Full Time, Permanent
Location - Salisbury or Portsmouth with hybrid working options
Security Clearance Level - must be eligible for SC
Internal Recruiter - Lee Brown
Salary £38-41k
Benefits 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund
Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company?
Sopra Steria's Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client's goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK's most complex safety- and security-critical markets.
Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies.
We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.
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