Role: Unix Engineer

Contract Length: 12 Months with possible extension

Location: Hybrid/Edinburgh or Glasgow - Onsite collaboration when required depending on project/team requirements

IR35: Outside

Pay Rate to Intermediary: 557.25 per day

Security Clearance: Disclosure Scotland







Spinwell is recruiting for a Unix Engineer for an excellent opportunity within the public sector.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE UNIX ENGINEER

• Develop and strengthen automation to support disaster recovery activities


• Develop and deploy automation for virtual builds of RedHat 8/9 images adhering to security best practice


• Support for existing UNIX infrastructure


• Optimisation of existing and new UNIX infrastructure


• Support and deploy PAM


• Support and deploy Ansible Tower

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE OF THE UNIX ENGINEER

Significant and demonstrable commercial experience of the following:

• Unix
  
  
  
  • RHEL 6/7/8 System administration
  
  
  • Solaris administration
  
  
  • Solaris Zone administration
  
  
  • Oracle VM administration using Oracle VM Manager
  
  
  • Red Hat Satellite administration
  
  
  • Automation
  
  
  
  


• Jenkins
  
  
  
  • System configuration
  
  
  • Pipeline creation and management
  
  
  
  


• Shell scripting, specifically Bash and Perl


• Load Balancer technologies, e.g. HAProxy and keepalived


• Grafana, Nagios and InfluxDB


• Agile working practices, including Kanban/Scrum, retrospectives, VFQ.


• Cyber Essentials Plus methodology


• Customer focused, through proactive engagement


• Risk aware, focused on risk reduction and mitigation


• Effective team working and technical decision making


• Designing and leading infrastructure projects


• Creativity taking new approaches to tackle problems; embracing innovation and sharing knowledge with a range of stakeholders


• Strong documentation skills


• DevOps practices, including automation of infrastructure

If you are a Unix Engineer, apply now or send your CV to Spinwell!

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