HMRC Migration Factory Linux Engineer - Remote Contract

Role Purpose

We are looking for engineers to join our customer's Data Centre Exit team. As part of a small team within a large Data Centre Exit Programme, your role will be to work client-side to deliver migration support services and to make changes to Linux platforms hosting IT services critical to our Customer. You will be empowered to identity better ways of doing things and to share your ideas. You will be supported by a Service implementation Manager, who will look after your wellbeing and ensure you receive work that befits your skills. Most of the project work is expected to be in normal hours, but you could also be offered to work out of hours.

Skills required

• Backup and restore of system images and volumes,
• Stop start services,
• Removal and clean-up of tooling
• Map storage volumes to VMs and map VLANs to VMs
• Revert the service to the source location
• Quiesce the service in the source location

Your experience -

• At least 5-10 years' experience of supporting (2nd to 3rd Line) Linux servers and platforms within large scale infrastructures (1000+ servers).
• Significant Linux Experience (SUSE, RHEL or OEL)
• UNIX scripting skills
• Good understanding of Storage, Networking & Cloud computing technologies
• Strong teamwork and interpersonal communication.
• Have proven problem solving abilities.
• Awareness of the ITIL Service Management framework and specifically incident and change management.

Your knowledge/skills -

• Proven Experience in an Implementation / support role at 2nd / 3rd line level
• Significant Linux Experience:
• RHEL Versions 6.x and 7.x
• OEL Version 7.x
• SUSE Versions 10.x, 11.x and 12.x
• UNIX scripting skills