Linux Engineer - Red Hat Enterprise


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Recruiter

Experis IT

Listed on

1st September 2021

Location

London

Salary/Rate

£450 - £550

Type

Contract

Start Date

October 2021

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Senior Linux Engineer (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) Experis are currently recruiting for a Senior Linux Red Hat Engineer to oversee the technical planning of the implementation of new servers and the migration of service from the old servers to the new for a non-ministerial Government department.The Department has procured replacement servers which support the service, and needs to have these implemented, upgrading from RHEL 6 to RHEL 8, and migrating management/automation from Puppet and Satellite to Ansible and Satellite. Tasks required:Work on the migration of legacy servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 to new servers running RHEL 8Understanding current architecture of the technology stack and serversLeading on migration of the existing Puppet-enabled automation under RHEL6 to Ansible under RHELUpgrading the service to RHEL 8, with a possibility of certain servers only moving to RHEL 7Implementing approximately 24 new physical servers as part of the migration, with some virtualisationMentoring team members and engagement with non-technical staff, and internal and external stakeholders Experience required:Demonstrable deep experience of RHEL versions 6, 7 and 8Demonstrable deep experience of the design and implementation of SatelliteDemonstrable deep experience of current and recent versions of AnsibleA demonstrable hands on understanding of PuppetDemonstrable experience of server upgrade and migrationDemonstrable experience of server virtualisationDemonstrable experience of application deploymentDemonstrable experience of the deployment and management of full stack environments including test environmentsDemonstrable experience of testingDemonstrable experience of working with Fibre Fabrics (not necessarily as a SAN specialist)Strong track record in building significant IT systems or digital services successfullyTeam leadership experienceExperience of working within GDS standards and best practiceExperience of working in the public sectorKnowledge of SAN technologiesKnowledge of archival storage of digital records

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