Linux Administrator - Inside IR35 - Up to £76 per hour - SC Cleared - Stevenage, Hertfordshire - 6 Months - SINGLE STAGE PROCESS

Yolk Recruitment are recruiting for a Linux Administrator to join our defence client in Stevenag on a 6 month deal.

The Linux Administrator is responsible for effective provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware, software and related infrastructure:

• This role is focused on the delivery of the Linux environment for the project.

• This individual participates in technical research and development to enable continuous innovation within the infrastructure.

• They ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems, and related procedures adhere to organizational values -  enabling staff, volunteeArs, and partners.

• They assist project teams with technical issues in the Initiation and Planning phases of our standard Project Management Methodology.

• These activities include the definition of needs, benefits, and technical strategy; research & development within the project life-cycle; technical analysis, design and support of operations staff in executing, testing and rolling-out the solutions.

• Participation in projects is focused on smoothing the transition of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities within the project life-cycle.

• You will work closely with Business, project/program managers, and other IT teams to establish and maintain Linux Systems within the environment.

• You will also work with project leaders addressing cases where Linux technologies are key to delivering specific solutions.

Your Responsibilities/Tasks, within the project:

• Create and build the Linux environment

• Deploying and configuring servers, and documenting the deployment platform and server configuration.

• Security hardening systems.

• Work with business stakeholders to identify their requirements and expected outcome.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information

• Identify the right tools to deliver an appropriate solution.

• Work with other IT teams to support service integration, and retention requirements based on the input of the business.

• Work with Security to ensure that solutions comply with regulatory and security policies.

• Recommend improvements to existing infrastructure.

• Support actively a "Work together" approach between teams working on an ITIL based model.

Skills/Experience Required

Essential

• Unix/Linux administrator of at least 5 years of experience including knowledge of -

• Red Hat Satellite v7

• Ansible experience

• RHEL Administration

• Kickstart

• Shell Scripting (ksh/bash/perl)

• LVM

• An understanding of TCP/IP networking

• Experience supporting systems running databases

Desirable:

• Red Hat Satellite v8

• Unix Clustering (HPUX/RHEL)

• FTP/SFTP

• Storage products (Netapp/EVA)

• OS Hardening

• VMWARE

• Workload management is important in this role.