Linux Administrator (Contract) - Investment Bank

Job Description

A Bank in the City of London is currently seeking a Linux Administrator to join their EMEA Technology team.

The Linux team is responsible for managing, maintaining, enhancing their linux related technologies across the estate, as well as supporting the drive towards automation by implementation solutions within a project environment.

From a BAU perspective the team take part in daily health and compliance checks for all Production systems as well as ensuring all Linux/Unix systems are backed up. Other duties include validating monitoring alerts, ensuring sufficient capacity is available to accommodate projected BAU & project growth, as well as maintaining Linux platforms in a highly available, reliable, secure and performant manner.

From a project perspective the Linux Administrator will help identify savings across project & BAU activities to be implemented through automation involving a detailed process flow, and ensure that all project/investment related workloads are delivered according to plans and defined budgets

Required skills:

• Red Hat and Solaris, including system internals and kernel tuning.
• Red Hat Satellite
• Ansible
• AWX
• REST API integration
• Scripting
• CI/CD pipelines and other automation concepts
• Dev/Ops mentality
• Git or other source code control software
• Excellent knowledge of networking, storage, database and virtualization layers.
• Good working knowledge of Python, Perl and Bash scripting.
• Clustering and high-availability technologies