Senior Linux Engineer (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
Experis are currently recruiting for a Senior Linux Red Hat Engineer to oversee the technical planning of the implementation of new servers and the migration of service from the old servers to the new for a non-ministerial Government department.
The Department has procured replacement servers which support the service, and needs to have these implemented, upgrading from RHEL 6 to RHEL 8, and migrating management/automation from Puppet and Satellite to Ansible and Satellite.
Tasks required:
- Work on the migration of legacy servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6 to new servers running RHEL 8
- Understanding current architecture of the technology stack and servers
- Leading on migration of the existing Puppet-enabled automation under RHEL6 to Ansible under RHEL
- Upgrading the service to RHEL 8, with a possibility of certain servers only moving to RHEL 7
- Implementing approximately 24 new physical servers as part of the migration, with some virtualisation
- Mentoring team members and engagement with non-technical staff, and internal and external stakeholders
Experience required:
- Demonstrable deep experience of RHEL versions 6, 7 and 8
- Demonstrable deep experience of the design and implementation of Satellite
- Demonstrable deep experience of current and recent versions of Ansible
- A demonstrable hands on understanding of Puppet
- Demonstrable experience of server upgrade and migration
- Demonstrable experience of server virtualisation
- Demonstrable experience of application deployment
- Demonstrable experience of the deployment and management of full stack environments including test environments
- Demonstrable experience of testing
- Demonstrable experience of working with Fibre Fabrics (not necessarily as a SAN specialist)
- Strong track record in building significant IT systems or digital services successfully
- Team leadership experience
- Experience of working within GDS standards and best practice
- Experience of working in the public sector
- Knowledge of SAN technologies
- Knowledge of archival storage of digital records
