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Linux Engineer (Public Sector)

ANS Group Limited


Job Location:

Manchester - UK

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 29 September 2026 (2 days ago)
Application Deadline: 27 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

The role

As an Engineerin our Secure Cloud team youll provide advanced technical support for our public sector customers across dedicated and private Secure Cloud environments with a particular focus on Linux infrastructure.

Youll act as the senior escalation point for complex Linux incidents taking ownership of issues through to resolution and helping maintain secure stable and reliable customer environments. Alongside hands-on troubleshooting youll improve documentation support automation and process improvements and share your Linux knowledge with engineers across the wider support function.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced Linux engineer who enjoys solving complex technical problems working across cloud and virtualised environments and helping others develop their technical capability.

What will I be doing

  • Acting as the 3rd line Linux escalation point troubleshooting and resolving complex incidents across customer environments.
  • Administering maintaining and optimising Linux servers across RHEL AlmaLinux Ubuntu and other enterprise distributions.
  • Supporting dedicated and private cloud platforms including VMware high availability disaster recovery and load-balancing technologies such as NGINX and HAProxy.
  • Troubleshooting infrastructure and connectivity issues across Linux services networking DNS SSL certificates and TCP/IP.
  • Driving service improvements through automation monitoring vulnerability remediation documentation and mentoring of other engineers.

What will I bring to the role

Youll bring strong hands-on Linux administration experience and the ability to diagnose and resolve complex technical issues within customer-facing production environments.

Youll also have:

  • Advanced Linux administration skills across RHEL AlmaLinux Ubuntu or similar enterprise distributions with experience supporting business-critical environments.
  • Strong troubleshooting experience covering Linux services permissions logs networking DNS TCP/IP and security-related issues.
  • Experience providing 3rd line support and working with virtualised platforms ideally including VMware clustered environments high availability and disaster recovery.
  • Knowledge of load-balancing monitoring and observability tools with a proactive approach to performance availability and problem management.
  • Excellent communication and technical leadership skills with experience mentoring colleagues and working directly with customers during high-priority incidents.
  • An understanding of Windows Server Active Directory scripting/automation and security frameworks such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001.

Why work for ANS

At ANS weve created a place where everyone can be themselves and we empower our people to get the job done. Openness ambition honesty and passion are what drive us every day. We are bold courageous and innovative and we do it like no other. We invest in our training development health and more we give you the benefits and flexibility to maintain a happy work-life balance.

Were proud of the inclusive fun dynamic environment weve created. Its a safe space that works for dont have to be a techie to work in tech. Bring your authentic self and find your dream role here. Find out more atLinkedIn pages.

Whats in it for you
With fantastic benefits an inclusive culture and a cool office space were your kind of workplace.

Company benefits

  • As standard:25 daysholiday plus you can buy up to5 moredays
  • A little extra:well give you yourbirthday offand an extracelebration dayfor whatever you want!Tying the knotYou get 5 days additional holiday in the year you get married. Oh and 5volunteer days!
  • Private health insurance
  • Pension contribution match and 4 x life assurance
  • Flexible workingandwork from anywherefor up to 30 days per year (some exceptions)
  • Maternity: 16 weeks full pay Paternity: 3 weeks full pay Adoption: 16 weeks full pay
  • Company social events get ready for a jam-packed calendar
  • Electric car scheme
  • 12 days of personal growth development time

ANS are an equal opportunities employer. We encourage diversity and anyone applying for a role at our organisation can be assured that their application will be treated fairly regardless of age disability gender reassignment gender expression marriage and civil partnership pregnancy and maternity race religion or belief and sex or sexual orientation. We sometimes ask for information relating to individuals for equal opportunities monitoring purposes only.

The Benefits

The Benefits

Work from anywhere

Private Medical

Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Volunteer Days

Electric Vehicle Scheme

Personal Development Days

Ride to Work Scheme


Required Experience:

IC