Linux Engineer

Ergo IT Recruitment Services; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Ergo IT Recruitment Services in Dublin is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a long-term contract with a global network provider. The role offers a hybrid work arrangement and the chance to work with bleeding-edge lab environments.

You will join a geographically dispersed team, manage patching, monitoring, automation, and troubleshooting for physical and virtual infrastructure, and contribute to scalable, reliable services in a security-conscious data center setting.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in a similar role (SRE, DevOps, Linux Administrator).
• Strong Linux skills and experience with virtualization and networking.
• Experience patching, updating, and maintaining servers and network devices.
• Experience with monitoring tools and alerting.
• Ability to write automation scripts.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Perform regular patching, updates, and maintenance of physical and virtual servers, network devices, and storage systems.
• Proactively monitor systems and applications to identify potential issues before they impact services.
• Serve as the first point of contact for lab infrastructure issues.
• Develop automation scripts, tools, and frameworks.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of system configurations and procedures.
• Identify opportunities to automate routine tasks and improve workflows.
• Collaborate with ops and datacenter engineers to integrate new systems.
• Manage physical hardware in the datacenter.
• Troubleshoot deployment issues and outages across networks and resources.

Skills

Linux

Virtualization

Networking

SRE/DevOps

Scripting

Monitoring

Tools

VMware

Git

Artifactory

Jenkins

Puppet

Ansible

Docker

Job description

Ergo are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity in Dublin with a global network provider.

We need inquisitive problem-solvers with strong Linux, virtualisation and networking skills to support IT operations.

You will work in a geographically dispersed team with global specialists on bleeding-edge technologies building and testing solutions within complex simulated lab environments.

This is a hybrid role with great day rates and long-term potential.

What will you do?

• Performing regular patching, updates, and maintenance of both physical and virtual servers, network devices, and storage systems.
• Proactively monitoring systems and applications to identify potential issues before they impact services
• Serving as the first point of contact for technical issues related to the lab infrastructure
• Develop automation scripts, tools, and/or frameworks
• Creating and maintaining detailed documentation of system configurations, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides
• Identifying opportunities to automate routine tasks and improve existing operational workflows
• Collaborating with other operations engineers and datacenter engineers to integrate new systems and components into the existing network infrastructure
• Managing physical hardware in the datacenter
• Troubleshooting deployment issues, outages in the network or on other systems resources.

You should have experience in the following:

• 3+ years in a similar role (SRE, DevOps, Linux Administrator)
• Networking including network protocols, basic routing, ports, and firewalls
• Virtualized environments (e.g. VMware)
• Monitoring tools (Splunk / Datadog an advantage)
• Scripting
• Tools such as Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Puppet, Ansible, Docker an advantage