Senior Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

Whitehall Resources; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services provider is seeking a Senior Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer for a mainly remote role, requiring occasional travel to Hertfordshire. The engineer will support critical infrastructure projects and manage both legacy and new technologies essential for aerospace applications. Ideal candidates will possess strong Linux and automation skills, specifically with Ansible, and be capable of problem-solving in a dynamic environment. This is an initial 3-month contract inside IR35.

Qualifications

• Experience in Linux systems administration.
• Proficiency in automation tools like Ansible.
• Knowledge of infrastructure management.
• Ability to troubleshoot unsupported tools.

Responsibilities

• Support infrastructure in GNC and software teams.
• Maintain and extend existing systems.
• Manage transitions to newer tooling.

Skills

Linux

Automation

Ansible

Infrastructure Management

Job description

Job Description

Senior Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

Whitehall Resources are looking for a Senior Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer. This role is mainly remote working, with some travel to Hertfordshire, for an initial 3‑month contract.

Inside IR35

Job Description : Project context :

Our exploration rover breadboarding and telecoms satellite infrastructure is using increasingly IM unsupported tools and services (be that older systems, newer systems, OS / software that IT simply don't support, etc.) raising a need to manage more and more of this internal to the site / project / department where we either want to be on more recent tooling (breadboarding) or maintain older tooling for spacecraft projects whose lifespan is in the tens of years and is expected to remain fixed.

The role is to support this infrastructure in both the GNC and software teams as the projects require; this will involve responsibility for maintaining / extending but may in the case of older systems require learning / understanding the current infrastructure before making substantial adjustments / redeployments.

Our current implementation on breadboarding relies on Ansible executing against a variety of different hosts performing operations from i…