Description
Linux Administrator - Inside IR35 - Up to £76 per hour - SC Cleared - Stevenage, Hertfordshire - 6 months - SINGLE STAGE PROCESSYolk Recruitment are recruiting for a Linux Administrator to join our defence client in Stevenag on a 6 month deal.
The Linux Administrator is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure:
- This role is focused on the delivery of the Linux environment for the project.
- This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuous innovation within the infrastructure.
- They ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values - enabling staff, volunteeArs, and partners.
- They assist project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of our standard Project Management Methodology.
- These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within the project life cycle; technical analysis, design and support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out the solutions.
- Participation in projects is focused on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities within the project life cycle.
- You will work closely with Business, project/program managers, and other IT teams to establish and maintain Linux Systems within the environment.
- You will also work with project leaders addressing cases where Linux technologies are key to delivering specific solutions.
Your Responsibilities/Tasks, within the project:
- Create and build the Linux environment
- Deploying and configuring Servers, and documenting 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.
- Recommend improvements to existing infrastructure.
- Support actively a "Work together" approach between teams working on an ITIL based model.
Skills/Experience Required
Essential
- Unix/Linux administrator of at least 5 years of experience including knowledge of -
- Red Hat Satellite v7
- Ansible experience
- RHEL Administration
- Kickstart
- Shell Scripting (ksh/bash/Perl)
- LVM
- An understanding of TCP/IP Networking
- Experience supporting systems running databases
- Red Hat Satellite v8
- Unix Clustering (HPUX/RHEL)
- FTP/SFTP
- Storage products (Netapp/EVA)
- OS Hardening
- VMWARE
- Workload management is important in this role.