Linux DevOps Engineer

Brief overview of the role:

An experienced Linux DevOps engineer needed to join a leading Secure IT Managed services organisation based in Shrivenham, Oxford.

This is a very exciting and rewarding opportunity to design and develop technical solutions to support a number of key government agencies. Prolinx technical staff engage with and provide leading edge solutions for a variety of customers including defence, blue light, science/medical and other industry research departments often within Universities. As such this is a very important role with critical outcomes.

You will be part of a small, agile and talented team responsible for developing, building and supporting of Linux and open source solutions within a secure managed services context along with diagnosing and resolving problems with existing Linux infrastructure.

You will be a part of a great company, where you will be able to grow and develop your skills and experience.

Duties:

Routine duties include but are not limited to;

• Maintain and improve our secure Linux hosted offerings of over multiple platforms, all based on RedHat Enterprise Linux versions 6, 7 and 8
• Provide 3rd Line Technical Support and Fault Resolution to 1st/2nd Line Support Teams
• Support the development and implementation of Open Source and DevOps tooling for use internally and with our customers
• Provide Subject Matter Technical advice and support
• Support the design process for Linux based solutions
• Help drive adoption of automation processes throughout the business
• Act as a focal point for Technical Personnel within their area of responsibility

Technical Specialisms:

• Understanding and knowledge of Agile/Scrum working practices
• DevOps Toolsets, Linux OS deployments and Maintenance
• A working knowledge of TCP/IP Networking
• Knowledge and understanding of OS hardening techniques

Essential Skills and Experience

A minimum of 2 years’ experience working within a Linux engineering environment and a working experience of DevOps, along with the following:

• Enterprise Linux OS (Red Hat, CentOS, Oracle)
• CI/CD Pipelines
• DevOps toolsets including Terraform, Git, Packer and Vault
• Configuration management - Ansible or Puppet
• Database Administration (MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB or InfluxDB)
• Discipline to follow ITIL best practices and ISO9001, ISO20000 & ISO27001 certifications
• Discipline to follow development and deployment best practices

Desired Skills and Experience

• Storage Technologies (Fibre Channel, Storage Arrays, Software Defined Storage)
• Network Technologies (LAN, WAN, Cisco switching, Juniper and Fortinet security products) and working knowledge of TCP/IP Networking
• Virtualisation management experience - VMware, XenServer, OpenStack or Hyper-V
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes or Openshift
• Red Hat Satellite
• Linux PKI

Desired Certifications or recent years’ experience

• Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator or equivalent experience
• Red Hat Satellite
• Kubernetes Certified Administrator
• VMware Cloud Native Master Specialist

Personal Attributes

• Analytical & Problem solving skills
• Excellent Time Management & organisational skills
• A flexible approach to work at all times and the commitment to ensure tasks are completed to deadline
• Work autonomously or as part of a Team
• Prepared to travel when necessary to customer site or other Prolinx locations
• Ability to obtain (without restrictions) Security Clearance to at least SC level