Linux Systems Administrator: Cloud & On‑Prem Ops

Bluestaq UK; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Workplace pension

Group income protection

33 days annual leave

Private medical cover

Professional development support

Job summary

Bluestaq Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator to maintain the Linux estate supporting NATO delivery on AWS and on‑premises. You will own incidents and small changes, escalating complex issues to Senior team members while learning the resolution process.

The role is an individual contributor reporting to the Systems Administration Manager, with a technical path that does not require management responsibilities. On‑call and travel may be required as part of the duties.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux administration in production environments.
• Experience with cloud (Azure) and on-premises estates is transferable.
• Familiarity with ITSM/ticketing workflows and change control.

Responsibilities

• Manage enterprise systems across test and production environments, cloud and on‑premises.
• Drive incidents from triage to resolution; prioritize own queue by severity and impact.
• Install, configure and secure services; perform small, low‑risk changes with verification.
• Carry out patching, backups and monitoring under change control; act on findings and logs.
• Propose small operational improvements: better alerts, clearer docs, simple automation.
• Support internal teams, data providers, data owners and data consumers.
• Participate in UK on‑call coverage and handovers with US team.

Skills

Linux administration

Azure

VMware vSphere

Scripting (Bash/Python)

Incident management

On-call / 24/7 support

Change control & security

Customer-service mindset

Documentation & logging

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Bluestaq Ltd in the United Kingdom is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator to maintain the Linux estate supporting NATO delivery on AWS and on‑premises. You will own incidents and small changes, escalating complex issues to Senior team members while learning the resolution process.

The role is an individual contributor reporting to the Systems Administration Manager, with a technical path that does not require management responsibilities. On‑call and travel may be required as part of the duties.