Description
Lead Linux Systems Administrator (Must have DV UKIC active clearance)
Location: Cheltenham (Travel to various sites)
Rate up to £650 per day
Duration: Initial 6 months with expected extensions
Inside IR35
I'm currently working with leading global security Aerospace and Defence Company who are looking for a Lead Linux Systems Administrator on a contract basis with a primary focus on supporting large scale Linux deployments, your experience will cover a variety of technologies, working closely with development teams to understand complex problem sets and apply your skills to solve them.
As a Lead Linux Systems Administrator, you will have a number of key responsibilities, these are primarily around systems support and maintenance, deployment of custom software in line with release schedule, incident management, vendor escalation and supporting your software development team. Experience of working within Software Development teams, including DevOps practices would be advantageous.
Key criteria required
*Must have DV UKIC active clearance - if you don't have this level of clearance it please do not apply as the customer arent able to put you through this as the process can take anywhere from 12 - 18 months.*
- Experience as a Lead Linux engineer
- Experience or knowledge of either Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS 7 & 8
- Experience of installing, upgrading and troubleshooting Java based applications
- Experience of Linux server integration with Active Directory
- Experience of building secure systems using corporate PKI solutions
- Knowledge of core Networking Principals
- Experience of technical leadership or team management
Desirable
- VMWare or Cloud-based architectures
- Accumulo, Hadoop & ZooKeeper administration
- Agile/Scrum methodologies using tools such as Confluence and Jira
- DevOps approaches and associated tools such as BitBucket, Ansible, Jenkins & Docker
- Messaging and Routing Technologies such as NiFi and Kafka
- Different programming languages, such as: Bash, Perl or Python
- Working with open source products