Linux Infrastructure Engineer

We have partnered with a Manchester-based technology company that is looking for a Linux Infrastructure Engineer to join the team on an initial 12-month fixed-term contract.

Their platforms help some of the world’s leading brands understand consumer behaviour by collecting and processing data at scale, and you’ll play a key role in supporting the business-critical infrastructure behind these services.

You’ll join a collaborative Operations team responsible for maintaining and supporting Linux-based production infrastructure, dedicated and virtual servers, and legacy VPN data capture platforms. This is a hands-on role where you’ll help ensure critical systems remain secure, stable, reliable and appropriately scaled, while troubleshooting issues and supporting day-to-day platform performance.

• Commercial experience in Linux systems/infrastructure administration.
• Experience supporting production server environments, ideally across dedicated and/or virtual infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across availability, performance and reliability issues.
• Experience with monitoring, logs, metrics and alerting.
• Understanding of security, vulnerabilities and infrastructure risk.
• Experience with server deployments, configuration and patching.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• A methodical approach to working within production environments.

Experience with Puppet/Puppet Bolt, Python, PHP, VPN/networking or VPS environments would be advantageous.

12-Month Fixed-Term Contract- Salary up to £45,000 + Bonus, * Salary up to £45,000 + Annual Bonus

• Hybrid and flexible working (2 days onsite per week)
• 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
• Initial 12 month Fixed Term Contract with potential for permanent
• Life assurance
• Home office budget
• Learning & Development budget, including paid certifications