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Linux Engineer

Employer
Sopra Steria Ltd
Location
Salisbury, Wiltshire
Salary
up to £41,000
Closing date
15 Jun 2022

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Clearance Level
DV
Sector
Aerospace, Defence, Information Technology
Job Type
Permanent

Are you a Junior Linux Engineer with an interest in Defence looking to further your career? 

A Linux engineer is required to join the Linux team within the server team operational umbrella. The individual should be diligent in their work and able to work as part of a busy a diverse team, delivering day to day effort alongside project workload where required. We are looking for someone who wants to build on their Linux systems and service understanding, or to take their first step and apply a basic understanding into their new job role.

Responsibilities:

  • Basic Linux understanding and a working knowledge of the linux O/S (Centos/Redhat preferred)
  • Report and technically assist with the management of the linux environments, ensuring service is running and available
  • Maintain knowledge on technical subjects relevant to role
  • Ensure Change management is followed at all times
  • Exposure to an ITIL environment would be an advantage

Essential Skills:

  • The Infrastructure Engineer will have good working knowledge of their technology area.
  • Good working knowledge and experience of associated infrastructure engineering tools, techniques, methods within their specialist area.
  • Infrastructure skills covering administration, fault finding/diagnosis and fix.
  • Experience within a customer support environment.

Desirable Skills:

  • Experience of: File/Print Clusters an advantage, enterprise level thin client environments an advantage, messaging systems an advantage, working to tight SLA’s
    Accreditation to MCP level or equivalent.
  • Diploma in Computer Sciences

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type – Full Time, Permanent
Location – Salisbury or Portsmouth with hybrid working options
Security Clearance Level – must be eligible for SC
Internal Recruiter – Lee Brown
Salary £38-41k
Benefits 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund


Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about our company?

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

Our technical specialists deploy systems running many of the major operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS, and multiple Linux distros. We also provide Messaging and Collaboration systems and support, Application packaging and deployment, along with supporting Infrastructure and Cloud services and support. Our time can be split between our services and project work, so we have the chance to be multi-disciplined and access to a range of technologies.

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