Unix Engineer - Outside IR35 - Remote

UNIX ENGINEER - OUTSIDE IR35 - REMOTE / HYBRID / EDINBURGH

Loriens client requires the experience and support of an experienced Unix Engineer for an initial 6 month contract.

The successful candidate will support the client move from projects on-premise to products in the cloud. Along with:

• Develop and strengthen automation to support disaster recovery activities
• Develop RedHat 8/9 build image to adhere to security best practice
• Support for existing UNIX infrastructure
• Optimisation of existing and new UNIX infrastructure
• Support and deploy PAM
• Samba administration
• Support and deploy Ansible Tower

Essential Skills / Experience

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

Other

• 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
• Strong documentation skills
• DevOps practices, including automation of infrastructure

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age