Senior Linux Engineer

Job Description Senior Linux Engineer

Location:

Stevenage - This position requires occasional travel to sites within the Greater London area and Southeast. This role is based fully on site, 5 days a week.

We seek a collaborative professional to join our team in delivering superior Linux Support alongside a group of skilled experts, each contributing across multiple contracts to ensure robust Linux solutions. This position offers an exceptional opportunity to enhance your specialist expertise within a dynamic and evolving sector. Our core objective is to design, implement, and maintain secure and reliable Linux environments.

As a Senior Linux Engineer, you will leverage your background with Linux-based clusters to support a high-performance computing platform aligned with rigorous security standards.

• Career Development:
  Be part of a team that values continuous learning.
• Skill Growth:
  Work with diverse technologies across various contracts.
• Collaboration:
  
  Join a skilled, supportive team, mentoring colleagues and solving complex challenges.

• Strong stakeholder management and customer skills, willing to work onsite.
• Ambitious and committed to personal growth.
• Automation-focused, eager to enhance scripting (BASH, Python, Ansible).
• Customer service, infrastructure support, or network administration experience is beneficial.

• Support Linux Infrastructure across multiple contracts.
• Share expertise within the team and implement best practices.
• Help define operational processes and resolve escalations.
• Build strong relationships with customers and internal teams.
• Occasionally assist with pre-sales or future system designs.

• Red Hat Certified Engineer or equivalent experience.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong intra and inter team communication skills
• Strong experience with Linux administration and support across several different distributions
• Experience with Linux in an integrated Windows / Active directory environment
• Experience with Linux automation systems such as Ansible
• Experience with Linux scripting across several different languages - preferably Bash, Python and at least one other
• Experience of Clustered environments and cluster orchestration tools
• Experience of clustered, parallel file systems, such as Lustre
• Knowledge of HPC management systems, such as Bright
• Network administration, such as Mellanox Infini Band mesh and Ethernet networks
• Storage administration, such as: DDN, Net App, IBM, or Dell EMC
• Experience managing batch scheduling systems, such as, PBS Pro, Slurm, SGE/UGE, Microsoft Scheduler

It's still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background in IT Support this could be the next opportunity for you.

This role will require you to become security cleared to a high level. Please visit National security vetting: clearance levels -  

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension - Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Company wide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work - employee discounts

Employee assistance programme / virtual GP

Flexible Working:
Work Your Way is our approach to flexible working with 1 hour a week allowance.

The recruitment process consists of a one stage interview.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email  if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer:
Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.