Linux Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Linux Infrastructure Engineer to join our Platform Services Team.  You will be working closely with other support teams to realise Admiral’s ambitious cloud journey.  You should be proficient in Linux OS, scripting, infrastructure as code and using automation techniques and tools.

You will be involved in the designing and planning phases and then responsible for building and maintaining the server infrastructure both on-premise and within the cloud. Once the infrastructure is in place you will assist and enable various teams with migrating services from on prem datacentres to the cloud, along with ensuring that the on-premise estate is still maintained and performing to a high standard. 

The Team

The Platform services Team is tasked with supporting the backend physical servers, hyper-visors and operating systems of the on-premise server estate whilst delivering new or replacement solutions in the cloud. The team also assist with migrating and transforming current on-prem services to the cloud.  The team is made up of compute engineers with a variety of backgrounds in infrastructure, Windows and Linux OS support. Admiral is making a large investment in cloud in the coming years and this team will be crucial to the success of that strategy.

Main Duties

• Provision and maintain cloud infrastructure.
• Assist with maintain on prem infrastructure.
• Driving increased automation and efficiencies on both on-premise and cloud estate.
• Collaborate with and provide expertise/guidance to other teams inside and outside of IT.
• Collaborate to define best practices and standards around DevOps.
• Implement and maintain HA/DR, security, capacity, resilience, and compliance strategies for existing and new applications.
• Optimize and support our existing public cloud-based solutions and workloads.
• Work with architecture team to ensure effective designs and application of the cloud and hosting services, aligned to architecture patterns and archetypes.
• In addition to this you will also proactively manage and address any risk issues relating to your assigned duties. You will be expected to complete your duties whilst conforming to any project timelines or service level agreements that are in place.

Behavioural Competencies

• Analytical mindset and ensure decisions are objectively justified.
• Understanding of the impact of decisions for the team and the business. 
• Clear articulation of ideas and thoughts verbally.
• Readily be available to help support the team and the wider Admiral IT.
• Maintain a good working relationship with customers and technical partners. 
• Proactively seeking to improve knowledge. 
• Willing to work with structured frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.
• Focus on providing solutions to problems.
• Be prepared to challenge the status quo and make suggestions for areas of quality improvement.

Essential Skills

• Enterprise level experience of designing and implementation solutions using Red Hat or Oracle Linux products. 
• Strong hands-on experience of scripting and automation. 
• Strong automation skills configuring servers using Ansible. 
• Demonstrable analytical and proven creative problem-solving skills. 

Desirable skills

• Experience of design and implementation of infrastructure, applications and cloud solutions at enterprise level
• Experience deploying infrastructure as code using Terraform. 
• Containerisation using Docker, Kubernetes, or Openshift
• Experience in Linux server virtualisation platforms such as OLVM, oVirt.
• Code management and deployment using Git and Azure DevOps or similar
• Evangelise topics such as monitoring, performance, and reliability throughout our IT support and delivery teams.
• Advise application teams to design highly available services.
• Help define and document infrastructure standards for existing IT teams to follow.
• In-depth understanding of Cloud based architectures, preferably Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Experience Required

• 3+ years professional experience working on large, mixed-technology, multi-site server environments.
• RHCSA/RHCSE certification or equivalent experience.
• Practical experience in the following areas:
  • Creating Low-level design documents
  • Server Automation
  • Cloud migration
  • Server performance monitoring and tuning.
  • Scripting skills Ansible and Terraform
  • Containerisation eg Kubernetes, Docker, GKE, AKS.
• Considered: Azure, GCP or AWS certifications. 

Our Commitment to You

At Admiral, we are committed to being a diverse and inclusive workplace. Admiral is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, reproductive health decisions, or related medical conditions), national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment.

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

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