Hybrid Linux Operations Engineer – 12-Month Contract

Maxwell Bond; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 40,500 - 49,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life assurance

Workplace pension

Home office budget

Learning & Development budget

2 days onsite per week

Job summary

Maxwell Bond in Manchester is seeking an Operations Engineer on a 12-month fixed-term contract to support Linux-based production infrastructure and legacy VPN data capture platforms.

You will troubleshoot incidents, automate tasks with Python or Bash, participate in an on-call support rota, and help keep critical systems secure, stable and highly available while collaborating with engineering teams.

Qualifications

• Commercial Linux systems administration experience.
• Experience supporting production server environments.
• Scripting or automation experience with Python, Bash or similar.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and problem‑solving skills.
• Experience with VPN technologies or networking is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain Linux production infrastructure.
• Monitor and support legacy VPN data capture systems.
• Troubleshoot incidents and resolve production issues.
• Support databases and business‑critical services.
• Automate operational tasks using Python, Bash or similar scripting tools.
• Apply security best practices and improve system reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to support platform stability.
• Participate in an on‑call support rota.

Skills

Linux

VPN

Python scripting

Bash scripting

On-call support

Troubleshooting

Collaboration

Tools

Python

Bash

VPN technologies

Job description

Maxwell Bond in Manchester is seeking an Operations Engineer on a 12-month fixed-term contract to support Linux-based production infrastructure and legacy VPN data capture platforms.

You will troubleshoot incidents, automate tasks with Python or Bash, participate in an on-call support rota, and help keep critical systems secure, stable and highly available while collaborating with engineering teams.