Linux Engineer

Head Resourcing; North East; Remote; GBP 39,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Linux Engineer to innovate and maintain their Linux server estate. This predominantly remote role requires occasional office attendance and offers a competitive salary and generous benefits, including extensive annual leave and a strong pension scheme.

Benefits

38.5 days of annual leave

Up to five extra paid well-being days

20 weeks paid family leave

Excellent pension scheme

Free private medical cover

Flexible benefits

Qualifications

• Strong sysadmin skills and engineering experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Experience with server implementation, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, and automation.

Responsibilities

• Innovating, supporting, and maintaining the company's Linux server estate.
• Collaborating with project teams to manage changes effectively.

Skills

Sysadmin Skills

Engineering Experience

Proficiency with Python

Proficiency with Bash

Understanding of Networking Technologies

Tools

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ansible

VMware

Job description

Tyne and Wear, North East, United Kingdom

Head Resourcing

07.05.2025

Full Job Description

Head Resourcing is recruiting for a Linux Engineer for a financial services company. This role is predominantly remote, although ideally, you will be near one of the hubs in Gosforth or Glasgow for occasional office attendance.

The role pays £39,000 - £49,000 and offers a range of great benefits. The role will require some occasional weekend/evening work, for which you will receive additional pay on top of the base salary.

The role involves:

• Innovating, supporting, and maintaining the company's Linux server estate for the Operational Platform.
• Supporting the management of patching lifecycles, including scheduling, deployment, and verification.
• Engineering, validating, implementing, and quality assuring technical solutions.
• Supporting projects implementing new infrastructure into the datacentres.
• Supporting root cause analysis and remediation of issues.
• Working closely with others to estimate work, manage domain scope, risks, and issues.
• Collaborating with project teams to ensure that changes within the environment are managed and controlled effectively.
• Strong sysadmin skills and engineering experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Satellite (install, configure, manage).
• Experience with server implementation, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring, and automation (Infrastructure as Code) with Ansible, AAP.
• VMware (upgrade, manage).
• Understanding of networking technologies.
• Proficiency with Python, Bash, APIs, and data structures in JSON/YAML or other formats.
• Generous holidays - 38.5 days of annual leave (including bank holidays, prorated if part-time) plus the option to buy more.
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
• Excellent pension scheme, with a minimum employer contribution of 8%.
• Free private medical cover, income protection, and life assurance.
• Flexible benefits including Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness cover.