Linux Administrator - MUST HAVE ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE - Stevenage, Hertfordshire - 6 months+

Blue chip client is urgently looking for a Linux Administrator

You must have active SC Clearance in place

MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA - INSIDE IR35

Role Description:
Role Overview
My client is seeking an experienced Linux Administrator to work as part of a team in supporting the engineering infrastructure of a large company in the aerospace industry.
Primarily based on Linux across different network layers, my client supports the infrastructure that provides the engineering teams with allocation of processing, storage and memory for complex simulation activities.
In addition, the team also maintains many applications on the infrastructure, including incident and request management, and maintenance of applications.
In your day-to-day activities, you will interact with fellow team members, other suppliers, and various client stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities
Application support, including installation and upgrades
Provision of HPC resources (mainly for system engineering, eg Matlab)
Infrastructure administration (Red Hat Linux/Kickstart/VM Ware Systems)
Information Management, in liaison with support groups (Data Centre Service, Networks)
Hardware diagnostics
Shell Scripting
Management, investigation and resolution of support tickets within the SLA
System updates (applications, Middleware, database)

Required Skills & Experience
Linux Administration: RHEL or similar (very strong practical application and experience)
Ansible (very strong practical application and experience)
Network Protocols (strong practical application and experience)
Git (strong practical application and experience)
Documentation skills (strong practical application and experience)
Red Hat IDM
VMWare
Podman

Desirable Skills
Jenkins
Storage area networks concepts
Redhat Satellite Server
Infrastructure monitoring (CheckMK)
Software install (3rd party software)
CENTOS (Legacy versions)
Basic Knowledge of Gitlab
LDAP/Active Directory

Additional Considerations
Sole British citizenship required
SC clearance required
On-site presence as needed
Ability and willingness to travel to the site at Stevenage

Please send CV for full details and immediate interviews. We are a preferred supplier to the client