Senior Linux Systems Engineer — Automation, Hardening and Availability for NATO with security clearance

A multinational defence organisation runs its security tooling on Linux and needsan engineer to install harden automate and keep it available working inside a change-controlledenvironment where an unexplained fix is not a fix.

What you would be doing

• Installing and monitoring Linux operating systems and the applications that run on them tothe standards of a secure environment.
• Contributing to the availability scalability and performance of the security tooling estateand the platforms underneath it.
• Building and maintaining custom systems and tools that make it possible to test integrateautomate and monitor both custom and commercial applications.
• Preparing and defending application upgrades in front of the change management board.
• Rolling out new features and installations inside the protected perimeter.
• Writing the documentation and operating procedures for what you build and testing them.
• Diagnosing problems in Linux systems and in how they integrate with directory services singlesign-on web platforms and log aggregation.
• Finding the patterns behind repeated incidents and proposing the improvements that reducethem.
• Working with service management on incident problem and change procedures.

What you would bring

• A computer science degree with at least a year as a Linux engineer or the equivalent inpractice.
• Linux server administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation configuration andmaintenance.
• Programming or scripting used in earnest for automation.
• Ansible and comfort with virtualisation such as VMware.
• Security practice applied to Linux: firewalls encryption access control.
• Red Hat certification both administrator and engineer level is preferred.
• Desirable: Red Hat Satellite and packaging observability practice containers with Podman orDocker collaboration tooling and open-source contribution.