Linux Systems Engineer

Job Description:

• Position: Linux Systems engineer
• Experience: 6 years
• Location: Hybrid

Technical skills required:

• • Proven experience of innovative and reliable Linux system administration particularly Ubuntu or other Debian-based Linux (exposure to other UNIX systems such as Solaris is an advantage
  •  Experience of using a full suite of configuration management and compliance tools, including managing code compliance, to produce OS and service configurations that can be deployed and maintained in an automated, repeatable fashion (e.g. Chef, Cookstyle, Chefspec, InSpec)
  •  Experience of administration and security in Apache based web systems, UNIX, Mac and Windows systems integration
  • Experience of authentication protocols, ideally Shibboleth/SAML, LDAP and Kerberos
  • Excellent shell scripting skills (BASH). Writing and maintaining administrative scripts and tools
  • Experience of Linux patch/updates management and providing support for UNIX based production applications including installation of open source software from source code
  • Demonstrable experience of administering web application and database servers and with messaging application servers and other Internet computing technologies including load balancing

  Beneficial experience:

  AWS experience including:

  Manage user identity, AWS permissions, and security in the cloud

  Provisioning, operating, and maintaining systems running on AWS (Amazon Web Services)

  Using features such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2),Security (IAM, Policies), CloudWatch CloudFront, Relational Database Service (RDS), Elastic Load Balancers (ELB), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), Simple Storage Service (S3)

  • Experience of server administration in virtualized environments (VMWare primarily)
  • Experience in using AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS OpsWorks or other automation technologies to produce stacks of AWS resources that can be deployed in an automated, repeatable fashion
  • Experience of managing and maintaining MySQL databases