Linux Support Engineer

JOB NUMBER PRSV00744
SCHOOL / SERVICE Professional Services
DEPARTMENT Information Technology
LOCATION Abacus House
CONTRACT TYPE Permanent
JOB CATEGORY SALC / Clerical / Technical / Support
HOURS Full-time
SALARY MIN £41,732
SALARY MAX £48,350
PUBLICATION DATE 12-Dec-2023
CLOSING DATE 07-Jan-2024
Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.
City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% postgraduate level) from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.
In the last decade, City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period, City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realizing its vision of being a leading global university.
Background
City is seeking an experienced Linux Support Engineer to join our teams in Information Technology to provide daily production support for all aspects of our Linux services.
Responsibilities
The role holder will provide daily support for all aspects of the Linux services, and more specialized support for a subset of Linux based systems, ensuring that systems are available to meet the demands of teaching, research and other functions, following up on system monitoring reports, ensuring that systems and services meet the security requirements of the University, and that data is backed up regularly.
The role holder will also assist with the planning, monitoring and undertaking of regular systems maintenance procedures such as monthly patching and code drops, and participate in the departments on-call service for out of hours support if required.
Person Specification
The successful applicant will have a proven background in deploying and working with both physical and virtualized Linux systems using CentOS, Rocky Linux and / or Ubuntu Linux within an Enterprise environment, with a good working knowledge of web server technologies and experience working with and maintaining a VLE or large-scale LAMP application.
In addition the successful applicant will have a good working knowledge of shell scripting and ideally experience working with automation and configuration management tools such as ansible, monitoring tools such as Nagios and experience of managing and maintaining database systems such as MySQL.
Additional Information
City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.
Closing date for applications: 7th January 2024 at 11:59 pm.
The selection process will involve an interview and an assessment. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.
For an informal discussion please contact Robert Caygill via rob.caygill.1@city.ac.uk
To apply and for more information about the post please use the links below.
Subject to agreement, relevant Professional Services roles may be undertaken in a hybrid way. This involves a combination of working on campus and at home each week.
Where hybrid working can be accommodated, specific arrangements will be agreed with the successful candidate before their start date. Regardless of where colleagues are working, City, University of London’s premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.
City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.
We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.
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