Linux Support Engineer

My university client is currently hiring for a Linux Support Engineer to support their department on a permanent basis - with extremely generous holidays of 42 days per year (including 8 bank holidays and 4 days for Christmas) and a great team culture, this is an exciting opportunity for anyone looking for their next role.

The Linux Support Engineer sits inside the Platform Services Team. This is a hybrid role entailing 1-3 days in the office - working remotely, the office, and relevant data centres when necessary.

Main Responsibilities

• General Technical Requirements
  • A working knowledge of the following systems is necessary to provide third-line support.
    • Linux systems based on Redhat Enterprise Linux / CentOS / Rocky Linux and Ubuntu.
    • Web servers and reverse proxies used by the University, Students, Staff, Research and Applications.
    • LAMP based applications such as Moodle (VLE) and WordPress which include production, test and development systems.
    • F5 Big IP Load balancers.
    • Samba Servers.
    • Nagios monitoring systems.
    • Prometheus / Grafana monitoring systems.
    • RADIUS / LDAP Proxies.
    • Backend management systems such as Ansible and Katello.
    • Deploying systems to both physical hardware / servers and Virtual Servers (VMWare).

• Third Line Support
  • Provided general third line support via the central call management system and directly with Service Managers as required.

• Script Development
  • Develop scripts, programs and playbooks to automate repetitive tasks and for use by support staff to carry out systems tasks.

This client is offering a great work culture with a supportive team and the ability to take an autonomous approach in managing the Linux services. With a total of 42 holidays per year, this is a great opporunity for a Linux Engineer to have the ability to build up experience in a large environment using their iniatives and ideas to support along the way.