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Advance your career with the leading provider of corporate governance and responsible investment solutions. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) part of ISS STOXX empowers investors and companies to build sustainable financial and social value by providing high-quality data analytics and insight.

Our clients rely on ISSs expertise and capital stewardship to help them make informed investment decisions and our people are equally passionate about positively impacting the communities where we live and work.

If you want to be a part of an exciting work culture that values innovation collaboration and provides you with the support you need to make a difference wed love to hear from you!

As a Senior Linux Administrator you will be part of a global team managing and optimising a large-scale Red Hat/Ubuntu Linux infrastructure across multiple regions. Youll design implement and maintain mission-critical systems ensuring reliability security and scalability. This role offers exposure to cutting-edge technologies cloud platforms and automation tools. This role includes responsibilities for interacting with internal customers at ISS STOXX and participating in engineering projects from the design phase through implementation and support.

Key Responsibilities

• Container Platforms: Design deploy and support Docker/Podman Kubernetes (K8S/K3S) and OpenShift clusters

• Cloud & Data Centre: Operate and optimise infrastructure across on-prem and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) including installations upgrades and migrations

• Security & Resilience: Implement Linux hardening patching access controls backup/restore and disaster recovery/BCP procedures

• Automation & IaC: Build and maintain configuration management and Infrastructure as Code using Ansible and Terraform (GitOps workflows preferred)

• Web Stack & Services: Support LAMP and related web technologies; maintain CI/CD and release processes in coordination with engineering teams

• Virtualisation & Compute: Plan and execute transitions for Windows/Linux workloads in VMware environments; optimise CPU/latency/throughput and storage strategies

• Observability & Compliance: Maintain monitoring/alerting frameworks; ensure adherence to ISS IT policies and standards

• Collaboration & Support: Partner with internal customers lead engineering projects from design to production participate in global on-call rotation

Required Qualifications

• 5-8 years administering Enterprise Linux (Red Hat/Ubuntu strongly preferred) including performance tuning networking storage and security

• Hands-on GCP experience:

  • Operating and securing workloads on Google Cloud Platform (e.g. Compute Engine GKE Cloud Storage VPC networking IAM)

  • Observability with Cloud Monitoring/Cloud Logging; cost and capacity awareness

• Containers & Orchestration: Production experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift and container runtimes (Docker/Podman)

• Automation & IaC: Strong proficiency in Ansible and Terraform (module design state management workspace hygiene)

• Virtualisation & Hardware: Experience with VMware Cisco/Fortinet networking HPE & UCS servers and Pure Storage or comparable platforms

• Resilience: Experience implementing DR/BCP strategies and backup/restore tooling

• Communication: Clear documentation and stakeholder communication; ability to work with distributed/global teams in English

Preferred Qualifications:

• DevOps practices and CI/CD (e.g. GitLab CI/GitHub Actions) artefact registries and pipeline hardening

• CyberArk Privileged Access Management administration

• Red Hat product suite (e.g. RHS RHGS RHDS)

• Additional config management exposure (Puppet/Chef/Salt) alongside primary Ansible experience

• Multi-cloud familiarity (AWS/Azure) and SRE practices (SLIs/SLOs error budgets)

• GCP certification such as Professional Cloud Engineer

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What You Can Expect from Us

At ISS STOXX our people are our driving force. We are committed to building a culture that values diverse skills perspectives and experiences. We hire the best talent in our industry and empower them with the resources support and opportunities to growprofessionally and personally.

Together we foster an environment that fuels creativity drives innovation and shapes our future success.

Lets empower collaborate and inspire.

Lets be #BrilliantTogether.

About ISS STOXX

ISS STOXX GmbH is a leading provider of research and technology solutions for the financial market. Established in 1985 we offer top-notch benchmark and custom indices globally helping clients identify investment opportunities and manage portfolio risks. Our services cover corporate governance sustainability cyber risk and fund intelligence. Majority-owned by Deutsche Börse Group ISS STOXX has over 3400 professionals in 33 locations worldwide serving around 6400 clients including institutional investors and companies focused on ESG cyber and governance risk. Clients trust our expertise to make informed decisions for their stakeholders benefit.

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