Senior Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

AtkinsRéalis Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Flexible holiday allowances

Training and professional development

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis Group is seeking an experienced Linux systems administrator to manage and optimize our RHEL and Oracle Linux environments. The role emphasizes server administration, security hardening, patching, and performance optimization, with collaboration across engineering teams.

You will be responsible for automation using Ansible, maintaining Satellite repositories, and supporting on-call rotations to ensure high availability of production systems in a hybrid UK office setup.

Qualifications

• Experience in supporting production Linux server infrastructure.
• Support 300+ Linux servers across enterprise environ- ments.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field required.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and configure Linux OSs (RHEL, Oracle Linux) on servers.
• Administer centralized authentication/IdM, RBAC, and sudo policies.
• Patch management using Red Hat Satellite, Ansible, and security remediations.
• Maintain Linux server health, security hardening, and inventory baselines.
• Monitor performance, diagnose bottlenecks, and lead incident resolution.

Skills

RHEL administration

Oracle Linux

Linux security hardening

On-call support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

Ansible

SCOM

ServiceNow

VMware vSphere

Nutanix

Job description

AtkinsRéalis Group is seeking an experienced Linux systems administrator to manage and optimize our RHEL and Oracle Linux environments. The role emphasizes server administration, security hardening, patching, and performance optimization, with collaboration across engineering teams.

You will be responsible for automation using Ansible, maintaining Satellite repositories, and supporting on-call rotations to ensure high availability of production systems in a hybrid UK office setup.