IT Systems Engineer Linux

Role: IT Systems Engineer (Linux)

Location: ShorehambySea UK Hybrid

Salary: 45000 to 55000 (DOE) plus benefits

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Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic environmental and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3000 employees in more than 20 countries we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leadingedge and innovative crosssector sustainable products and solutions. Every day we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role
We are seeking an experienced IT professional to deliver highquality IT services ensuring the provision support and compliance of servers storage and virtual infrastructureboth onpremises and in cloud environments. You will play a key role in maintaining and optimising our IT infrastructure to meet or exceed client and stakeholder expectations.

Key Responsibilities

• Proactively administer and manage Ricardos IT infrastructure.
• Handle incident and event management ensuring swift resolution.
• Oversee change management processes.
• Manage vulnerability and patch updates to maintain security.
• Implement Privileged Access Management (PAM) protocols.
• Conduct cost analysis for cloud services and plan for obsolescence.
• Resolve 2nd and 3rd line support tickets efficiently.
• Participate in afterhours upgrades troubleshooting and oncall support as required.
• Ensure compliance with ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standards.
• Monitor infrastructure performance and implement necessary improvements.
• Support other technology objectives as required.

Key Competencies and Experience
Extensive experience in an IT or technology department including:

• Administration and management of Linux/UNIX servers.
• Monitoring system performance and ensuring security.
• Performing routine system administration tasks and maintaining logs.
• Providing technical support troubleshooting and user assistance.
• Installing and optimising Linuxbased applications.
• Managing system access data integrity and security protocols.
• Upgrading systems in line with business needs and coordinating downtime.
• Developing and maintaining system recovery procedures.
• Creating and maintaining comprehensive documentation.

Technical Skills:

• Linux Servers: RedHat (ALMA CentOS Ubuntu)
• HighPerformance Computing (HPC): InfiniBand GPU
• Workstations: SUSE Ubuntu
• Scripting: Bash Python
• Editors: PyCharm
• Licence Services: FLEXlm RLM DSLS
• Authentication: Linux AD Auth (SSSD)
• Backup Solutions: Veeam
• Virtualisation: VMware
• Hardware: Dell HP Servers
• Storage Systems: Dell EMC
• Windows Server experience (desirable but not essential)

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Experience with IT service management frameworks and tools such as ITIL.
• Proficiency in scripting automation tools and server security.
• Strong understanding of security principles and network protocols.
• Excellent problemsolving skills and ability to troubleshoot complex system issues.
• Familiarity with version control systems (Git SVN).
• Experience in system management tools logical file systems and client/server environments.
• Ability to work effectively in a geographically distributed team.
• Knowledge of networking concepts including LAN/WAN TCP/IP and related protocols.

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Work life balance

We offer flexible approaches to work whether that is working from home being in the office or as a hybrid worker. Were happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.

Benefits

We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.

Our core benefits include 25 days annual leave plus 8 flexible bank holidays a competitive company pension scheme life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.

Diversity Equality and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer we believe in each persons potential and well help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity equality and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and proactively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture we are a recognised as a disability confident employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team viaif you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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