Linux Infrastructure Engineer

Maxwell Bond; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life assurance

Home office budget

Learning & Development budget

Job summary

Maxwell Bond is partnering with a Manchester-based technology company to hire a Linux Infrastructure Engineer on a 12-month fixed-term contract. The role is hybrid with 2 days on site in Greater Manchester, focusing on maintaining Linux-based production infrastructure and supporting critical systems.

You will contribute to secure, stable and scalable operations, handling deployments, monitoring, and incident response while collaborating with the Operations team.

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in Linux systems/infrastructure administration.
• Experience supporting production server environments, ideally across dedicated and/or virtual infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across availability, performance and reliability issues.
• Experience with monitoring, logs, metrics and alerting.
• Understanding of security, vulnerabilities and infrastructure risk.
• Experience with server deployments, configuration and patching.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• A methodical approach to working within production environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Linux-based production infrastructure.
• Manage dedicated and virtual servers; support legacy VPN data capture platforms.
• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents to ensure security, stability and performance.

Skills

Linux administration

Production server environments

Troubleshooting

Monitoring & logging

Security & risk

Server deployments & patching

Communication & problem solving

Tools

Puppet

Puppet Bolt

Python

PHP

VPN networking

VPS environments

Job description

12-Month Fixed-Term Contract- Salary up to £45,000 + Bonus

Greater Manchester (Hybrid – 2 days onsite)

We have partnered with a Manchester-based technology company that is looking for a Linux Infrastructure Engineer to join the team on an initial 12-month fixed-term contract.

Their platforms help some of the world's leading brands understand consumer behaviour by collecting and processing data at scale, and you'll play a key role in supporting the business-critical infrastructure behind these services.

You'll join a collaborative Operations team responsible for maintaining and supporting Linux-based production infrastructure, dedicated and virtual servers, and legacy VPN data capture platforms. This is a hands-on role where you'll help ensure critical systems remain secure, stable, reliable and appropriately scaled, while troubleshooting issues and supporting day-to-day platform performance.

Key requirements

• Commercial experience in Linux systems/infrastructure administration.
• Experience supporting production server environments, ideally across dedicated and/or virtual infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across availability, performance and reliability issues.
• Experience with monitoring, logs, metrics and alerting.
• Understanding of security, vulnerabilities and infrastructure risk.
• Experience with server deployments, configuration and patching.
• Strong communication and problem-solving skills.
• A methodical approach to working within production environments.

Experience with Puppet/Puppet Bolt, Python, PHP, VPN/networking or VPS environments would be advantageous.

What's in it for you

• Salary up to £45,000 + Annual Bonus
• Hybrid and flexible working (2 days onsite per week)
• 25 days' annual leave plus bank holidays
• Initial 12 month Fixed Term Contract with potential for permanent
• Life assurance
• Home office budget
• Learning & Development budget, including paid certifications

If you're a Linux Infrastructure Engineer, Linux Systems Engineer, Operations Engineer or experienced Linux SysAdmin who enjoys working hands-on with production infrastructure and solving complex operational challenges, this is a great opportunity to join a collaborative technical team supporting business-critical systems.