Linux Administrator at ASA RECRUITMENT, Edinburgh, £550-£600 per day

ASA Recruitment’s client, a Public Sector organisation in Edinburgh, are currently looking to recruit a Linux Administrator on a mostly remote basis, for an initial 4 week contract (with potential extensions) on a rate of c.£550-£600/day outside of IR35 (based on experience).

Essential Experience:

• Strong Linux administration across RHEL/Rocky 7, 8 and 9 and Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, including package management (dnf/apt), systemd service management and day-to-day server administration.
• Experience with SELinux/AppArmor, SSH hardening, auditd, user/group management and performance analysis tools such as sar, iostat and strace to harden server security and optimise performance.
• Knowledge of firewalld/iptables, bonding, VLANs, LVM, NFS and multipath configuration and management in a large-scale infrastructure
• Application configuration and management on tools and applications such as Apache, Samba, JBoss, NFS and similar services, ensuring availability, performance and security across the estate.
• Knowledge and experience of configuration management and automation using SaltStack — state files, Pillar, Grains and orchestration across a large server estate, with solid Bash/Python scripting and Git-based (Azure DevOps) workflows
• Knowledge of the Nutanix HCI platform, using Prism for VM lifecycle management, storage containers, snapshots and data protection.
• Experience of using Grafana and Zabbix for infrastructure monitoring and familiarity around CI/CD pipelines and a collaborative approach to working with infrastructure and development teams.

Desirable Experience:

• Experience with the installation, configuration and management of OpenStack Swift for object storage, and Rundeck for job scheduling and operational runbook automation.