LINUX ENGINEERS - REMOTE - CONTRACT- TELFORD

LINUX ENGINEERS - REMOTE - CONTRACT- TELFORD

Leading Managed Services Provider in the Public and Defence Sector requires a Linux 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 Windows platforms hosting IT services critical to our Customer.

**A national security clearance is required for this role but candidates not holding this level of clearance will be considered**

Duration: 6 Months initially

Positions: 2

Remote working but must be able to travel to Telford as required

Most of the project work is expected to be in normal hours, but you could also be offered to work out of hours.

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

Key responsibilities include -

• 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

Please apply via this ad in the first instance or send a CV with covering note or contact me on 07587743762 or Balla@projectpeople.com

Project People is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.