Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Linux & Storage)

Role: Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Linux & Storage)

Location: Hybrid - home based with 1/2 days per week on-site in Cardiff

Salary: £38 - 49K + on-call payments + comprehensive range of Employee Benefits, (including 27% Employer contribution Pension, flexible working, 30 days holiday allowance, free parking etc.)

Key Skills: Linux, AWS, any Storage solutions, (ie. NetApp), (desirable skills include: Terraform, Concourse, Ansible)

Why Apply: This Employer offers exceptional Employee development careers and following a period of investment in their Digital services, are looking to expand their Infrastructure Team. The role offers a strong, collaborative work environment with the chance to get exposure to automation tools as well as getting involved in large upcoming projects.

Our Client: Our Client is a Government Agency, with over 1,000 Employees delivering essential commercial data services to UK businesses.

Role Summary:

• Join a small specialist team delivering daily support to the infrastructure that supports both front-end services and back-end databases and the storage solutions that holds critical data. Covering core 08.30 - 17.00 hours Monday to Friday.
• Take part in a 24/7/365 rota.
• Proactively monitor systems performance, taking preventative or corrective action as required.
• Support and develop Linux and storage infrastructure, (on-site and could), ensuring availability, performance and resilience.
• Support ongoing migration of services to cloud (AWS).
• Decommission redundant systems/hardware
• Document processes as required

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• 2+ years' experience in an Infrastructure Engineering role supporting both on-prem and cloud solutions (AWS)
• 2+ years Linux administration experience, including virtualisation
• 1+ years supporting SAN technologies
• Knowledge of automation technologies such as Terraform, Ansible & Concourse advantageous.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal, able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical people.
• Strong problem solver, initiate and monitor actions to investigate patterns to resolve problems.

** You must have lived and worked in the UK for the last 5 years with no extended periods outside of the UK in that time to be eligible for the necessary security vetting for these roles **