Linux Infrastructure Engineer

We are looking for a Linux Infrastructure Engineer wo will take ownership our clients on-premise development infrastructure. You'll be responsible for maintaining, improving and automating the Linux-based infrastructure that supports software and hardware development teams.

This is a hands-on technical role focused on Linux systems, networking, virtualisation, storage and automation. While not directly involved in product development, you will play a key role in ensuring engineers have reliable, high-performing infrastructure to enable the delivery of cutting-edge technology.

The role is primarily based around on-premises infrastructure, with only minimal cloud exposure.

Due to the nature of the position, regular office attendance is required, although hybrid working is available.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure and maintain Linux-based physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Manage and support virtualisation platforms, networking and enterprise storage.
• Ensure the availability, performance and security of development infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Support and administer CI/CD tooling, build systems and engineering platforms.
• Implement monitoring, alerting and dashboard solutions to maintain platform health.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking and systems issues.
• Work closely with software and hardware engineering teams to support development activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency through automation and tooling.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the engineering infrastructure environment.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong Linux systems administration experience (Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky Linux/Red Hat).
• Solid networking knowledge, including switching, firewalls and network troubleshooting.
• Experience administering virtualisation platforms (ideally XCP-ng/XOA or similar).
• Storage administration experience, ideally with enterprise storage platforms.
• Automation-first mindset with experience using Ansible and Terraform/OpenTofu.
• Jenkins installation, administration and pipeline development.
• Monitoring and observability tools such as Zabbix, Prometheus or Grafana.
• Scripting using Bash and/or Python.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with engineering teams.

Desirable Skills

• Kubernetes administration (including Rancher).
• Bare-metal provisioning technologies such as iPXE and Redfish.
• HashiCorp Vault or similar secrets management solutions.
• License server administration (FlexLM/FlexNet).
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar build pipeline platforms.
• Artifactory administration.
• Slurm Workload Manager administration.
• Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Azure and Entra ID administration.