Linux System Engineer

London Source: WhatJobs
£45,000–£60,000

Position Overview

Contract - 6 months

Seeking a mid-level Linux Systems Engineer to join a Storage Engineering team. This role focuses on platform integration, compliance testing, and process documentation to ensure a high-performance storage system (part of a new HPC environment) meets operational and security standards ahead of go-live.

Key Responsibilities

  • Platform Integration & Readiness
  • Integrate storage platforms with secure access, monitoring, and alerting systems.
  • Collaborate with datacenter, network, Linux, and security teams to ensure seamless system integration.
  • Liaise with the storage vendor to log and track defects, implementing remediations as required.
  • Compliance Testing & Evidence
  • Develop and execute test plans to benchmark and validate storage systems.
  • Document compliance evidence for internal audit.
  • Maintain testing frameworks and automate compliance monitoring.
  • Process Documentation
  • Create comprehensive technical documentation for storage procedures.
  • Develop standard operating procedures for storage administration tasks.

Required Qualifications

  • 3–5 years of Linux system administration experience (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu).
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform).
  • Familiarity with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Alertmanager, Victoria Metrics/Logs).

Preferred Qualifications

  • 2+ years’ experience with enterprise storage technologies.
  • Linux certifications (RHCSA, RHCE, or equivalent).
  • Experience with containerized storage solutions (Docker volumes, Kubernetes persistent volumes).
  • Knowledge of cloud and cloud storage services (AWS S3).

Technical Skills

  • Performance monitoring.
  • Version control systems (Git).
  • Virtualization technologies (VMware).

Seniority level

  • Mid-Senior level

Employment type

  • Contract

Job function

  • Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Strategy/Planning

Industries

  • Staffing and Recruiting

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