Linux Administrator

£76 per hour inside ir35

Stevenage - onsite working

6 months (extension highly likely)

One stage virtual interview

Sector: Space & Cyber Security

SC cleared required - UK eyes only project

Yolk Recruitment are recruiting for a Linux Administrator to work with a world leading space and cyber security company that is on the cutting edge of spacecraft technology

This is an exciting opportunity to join a team as the key engineer responsible for the development of that project's Red Hat solution

Responsibilities:

• Developing a build environment with Satellite and Ansible
• Deploying and configuring servers using this build environment
• Document the deployment platform and server configuration.
• Security hardening systems.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to select the relevant sources of information.
• Work with Security to ensure that solutions comply with regulatory and security policies.
• Recommend improvements to existing infrastructure and processes.
• Provide on-going tracking and monitoring of system performance.
• Smooth the transition of projects from development staff to production staff by performing operations activities within the project life-cycle.

Core Skills:

• Experience developing and improving Ansible playbooks and roles; specifically as part of a build process.
• Shell Scripting (bash/python/perl/ksh...)
• Revision control tools e.g. Git, Subversion (SVN), Bitbucket, Mercurial
• RHEL Administration
• Management of Red Hat Satellite
• An understanding of TCP/IP networking
• Experience supporting systems running databases
• Linux administrator of at least 5 years of experience

Desirable Skills:

• Implementation of Linux Directory Services (LDAP), specifically with respect to Linux/Windows integration
• LVM
• OS Hardening
• Storage products (Netapp/EVA)
• VMWARE