Linux Administrator

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Company
Maclean Moore
Job location
London, UK
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Undisclosed
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We are partnered with a reputable global consultancy that are looking for a LINUX OS ENGINEER to work on a very exciting LONG-TERM CONTRACT in the Banking sector. Role: Linux OS Engineer Rate: Up to £500 per day (inside IR35) Location: London Style: Hybrid Duration: 3 months (initially – view to extend) The Role: Responsible for all aspects of the nix estate Responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing nix 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 Key Responsibilities: 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. Key Skills: 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 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 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. If you are interested and have the relevant experience, please apply promptly and we will contact you to discuss it further. Yilmaz Moore Senior Delivery Consultant London | Bristol | Amsterdam
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