Senior Linux & Ansible Engineer - Hybrid Cork

HCLTech; Cork; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation allowance

Health insurance

Job summary

HCLTech is hiring a Linux Administrator in Cork, Ireland, operating in a hybrid mode with 2 days in the office. The role emphasizes deep Linux expertise and strong Ansible automation to streamline configurations, patching, deployments, and provisioning across large-scale environments.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of Linux experience, hands-on skills across kernel concepts, filesystems, LVM/RAID, networking, and security hardening, plus modular Ansible playbook development.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on Linux administration experience.
• Strong knowledge of RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu/SUSE and kernel concepts.
• Experience designing secure, scalable Linux environments and hardening.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage secure, scalable Linux environments.
• Develop modular, reusable Ansible playbooks and role-based structures.
• Automate configurations, patching, deployments and provisioning.

Skills

Linux internals

System configuration

Linux hardening

Troubleshooting

Filesystems

LVM

RAID

Networking

Boot loaders

Secure Linux

Scalable Linux

Ansible

YAML

Jinja2 templating

Inventory management

Custom Ansible modules

Tools

Ansible

YAML

Jinja2 templating

Inventory management

Custom Ansible modules

Job description

HCLTech is hiring a Linux Administrator in Cork, Ireland, operating in a hybrid mode with 2 days in the office. The role emphasizes deep Linux expertise and strong Ansible automation to streamline configurations, patching, deployments, and provisioning across large-scale environments.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of Linux experience, hands-on skills across kernel concepts, filesystems, LVM/RAID, networking, and security hardening, plus modular Ansible playbook development.