Senior Linux / Unix Engineer
12-Month Fixed Term Contract | London (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
An opportunity for an experienced, hands-on Linux Engineer to join a lean infrastructure team supporting business-critical systems in a BAU-heavy environment.
This is a replacement hire, ideal for someone who enjoys ownership, stability work, and improving automation within traditional on-prem estates, with exposure to cloud as the platform evolves.


Key responsibilities
*Support and maintain RHEL and Solaris environments (100-200 VMs)
*BAU support, incident management, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis
*Build, patch, upgrade, and lifecycle management of Linux/Unix servers
*Improve automation and reduce manual operational tasks
*Support infrastructure for critical financial applications
*Participate in occasional weekend project work and a light on-call rota


Technical environment
*RHEL 7/8/9, Solaris 11
*Ansible automation
*Python and/or Bash scripting
*Docker / Podman containers
*Grafana and monitoring tools
*Predominantly on-prem, with early AWS adoption underway


Skills & experience required
*Strong senior-level Linux/Unix administration experience
*Hands-on experience with Ansible and scripting (Python/Bash)
*Comfortable working in lean teams with high ownership
*Experience supporting production environments and BAU workloads
*Exposure to cloud platforms (AWS preferred) is beneficial but not essential


Working pattern & benefits
*12-month fixed term contract
*Hybrid working: 3 days onsite / 2 days remote
*Light on-call requirement (approx. 1-2 calls per month)
*Technically varied role with genuine ownership
*Opportunity to influence automation and future cloud direction


Interview process
*Team interview
*Face-to-face interview
*HR conversation
Interviews commencing mid-late next week.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.