Linux Systems Engineer — Cloud & On-Prem Ops (AWS)

Bluestaq UK External; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Income protection

33 days leave (incl. bank holidays)

Private medical cover

Development support

Job summary

Bluestaq Limited is seeking a Linux systems administrator to join our UK team. You will maintain the AWS-based Linux estate that supports NATO delivery, handling day‑to‑day incidents and small changes, with escalation to senior engineers as needed.

This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Systems Administration Manager. You will work across test and production environments, contribute to automation, security, and on‑call coverage, and travel for onboarding as required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux administration in production environments.
• Experience with cloud/on-prem environments (Azure/VMware).
• Scripting in Bash or Python and a drive to automate.
• Ability to troubleshoot using logs, status tools and documentation.
• Understanding of change control and security in a production estate.
• Strong communication and customer-service mindset.

Responsibilities

• Support enterprise systems across test and production environments, on cloud and on‑premises.
• Drive tickets and incidents from triage to resolution, prioritising your queue by severity and impact.
• Install, configure and secure common services, making small, low‑risk changes safely and verifying impact.
• Carry out patching, upgrades, backups and monitoring checks under change control.
• Propose small operational improvements: better alerts, clearer docs, simple automation.
• Support internal teams, data providers and data consumers.
• Participate in UK operational coverage, including on‑call rotation with the US team.

Skills

Linux administration

Azure / VMware

Scripting (Bash / Python)

Incident management

Troubleshooting

Automation mindset

Tools

Confluence

Jira

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Bluestaq Limited is seeking a Linux systems administrator to join our UK team. You will maintain the AWS-based Linux estate that supports NATO delivery, handling day‑to‑day incidents and small changes, with escalation to senior engineers as needed.

This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Systems Administration Manager. You will work across test and production environments, contribute to automation, security, and on‑call coverage, and travel for onboarding as required.