Description
Linux Consultant - home based
+ 3 month initial contract with likely extensions
+ £440 to £480 per day
+ Home based role with some travel to Manchester
+ RHEL/Focused on containerization of the current estate
Must have:
Experience in Containerization
Understanding of RHEL (RedHat)/CentOS/Ubuntu
Experience of application and system automation (ideally Ansible)
Experience:
Engineers with knowledge of various Linux Operating Systems such as RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu.
Logical Volume Management (LVM), disks and file systems including configuration and administration.
Network configurations including multiple network interfaces and Firewall rules.
Service administration and configuration and associated dependences.
High availability services including applications/services such as databases, web services and shared/replicated file systems such as GlusterFS.
Package management yum/dfn/apt, including configuration, deployment and dependencies.
Partner with application developers and third parties to create robust application and system deployments using development tools and languages such as Git/Python/Shell/etc
Application and system automation tooling such as Ansible and Puppet.
Performance optimisation of OS and applications to ensure the services and functionality is abundantly available.
Provide sophisticated monitoring and troubleshooting for Linux-based Servers. Use troubleshooting procedures and technical information to identify severity of incidents and carry out accordingly the resolution process. Research issues that do not have a recognized solution and prepare a resolution process for them
Experience of containerization technology enabling the creation and use of Linux containers, highly desirable