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# Senior Infrastructure Engineer (Linux)

- **Company:** Featuredneweasy
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £55,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Ubuntu (Operating System), CentOS, Cloud Engineering, Linux, Linux System Administration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Azure DevOps Pipelines, Software Deployment, Oracle Linux, Delivery Pipeline, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Bicep, Key Vault, Servicenow
- **Published:** July 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/senior-infrastructure-engineer-linux/57075848

## About the Role

* 5-7 years of enterprise infrastructure engineering experience, ideally within an MSP or multi-customer environment
 * Strong Linux administration skills across RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, and Oracle Linux
 * Proven Ansible experience including playbook development, patching lifecycle management, and compliance reporting
 * Hands-on Azure proficiency covering Linux VM management, Azure Update Manager, Azure Backup, Key Vault, and networking
 * Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Bicep and/or ARM templates
 * Familiarity with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
 * Solid Bash scripting skills for automation and maintenance tasks
 * Strong understanding of ITIL change management processes, including RFC preparation and CAB attendance
 * Experience with ServiceNow for ticket and change management, AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate) or equivalent demonstrated Azure experience.

What Matters Most

You take full ownership of what you're responsible for, whether that's hitting a >95% Linux patching compliance SLA, maintaining >98% backup success rates, or driving an escalated incident to resolution without needing to push it further up the chain. You're automation-first in your thinking and disciplined in your approach to change management and documentation.

If you're a Linux and cloud engineer looking for a role with genuine technical depth and real ownership across a diverse MSP environment, we'd love to hear from you.

## Description

You'll be responsible for end-to-end Linux patching using Ansible, managing Azure Backup for Linux workloads, building infrastructure-as-code deployments with Bicep and ARM templates, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines through Azure DevOps. You'll also act as the escalation point for T1 engineers and play a key role in P1 major incident response as part of a 1-in-5 weekly on-call rota. On-call compensation is provided.


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