I am currently recruiting for a Systems and Infrastructure Engineer with strong Linux expertise to join my clients IT Infrastructure team and help deliver reliable, high-quality services across the organisation.
In this role, you will work closely with Infrastructure, Development, and DevOps teams to ensure robust processes are in place for building, maintaining, and optimising a range of internal and customer-facing environments. You will play a key part in driving efficient, automated approaches to infrastructure operations and continuous improvement.
Key responsibilities of the role
- Using automation tools and processes to manage infrastructure tasks, including environment builds, scaling, self-healing, monitoring, and patching.
- Supporting and maintaining the organisation’s Linux estate.
- Supporting and maintaining AWS infrastructure.
- Working closely with Software Development and DevOps teams to meet their infrastructure requirements.
- Proactively researching and recommending improvements to enhance efficiency and maintain high service levels.
- Creating and maintaining technical documentation and ensuring all system changes follow change management processes.
- Ensuring systems comply with relevant internal controls, policies, and procedures.
Essential skills and experience
- Strong experience with Linux technologies, including Ubuntu, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Postfix, and Git.
- Experience with configuration and infrastructure management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, and Ninja.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services, ideally including EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation.
- Working knowledge of Windows Server services, including Active Directory, Group Policy, and DNS.
- Scripting skills in Python and Bash.
- Solid understanding of IT security fundamentals.
- Ability to manage customer expectations, SLAs, and competing priorities effectively.
- A proactive approach to staying current with technology trends and industry developments.
- Understanding of Service Management disciplines, ideally aligned with the ITIL framework.
- Strong relationship-building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience working alongside software development teams, providing guidance on best practices to ensure performance and availability.
This role is urgent and will be a 1 stage onsite interview so please apply ASAP should you be interested!
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