Linux Engineer

Job Title: Linux Engineer
Location: Knutsford 3 days a week
Salary/Rate: £480 per day
Start Date: 27/05/2026
Job Type: Contract Inside IR35

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our tier one banking clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Linux Engineer to join their team for a six-month contract.

JD:

• Bachelors degree in technology with working experience in Unix
• Must be RedHat Certified and ITIL Foundation certified.
• Working experience in fast paced UNIX environment.
• Excellent communication and articulation skill
• Ability to drive interaction with senior stakeholder.
• Comfortable to work in APAC/EMEA and weekend
• Unix Administration and troubleshooting skills, clear concepts Of L VM, user Management & Operating system
• Troubleshooting on file system & user access related issues.
• Deep understanding Of UNIX OS & Troubleshooting on various UNIX OS Issue
• Knowledge Of automation, Chef, power broker technologies
• AWS / cloud knowledge would be added advantage
• Experience in Remote troubleshooting and diagnosis of UNIX issues
• Work with vendors like Linux & Oracle in coordinating hardware/software issues
• Understanding and troubleshooting experience of Veritas volume manger and Veritas cluster
• Basic Tivoli Storage Manager Client administration & able to trouble shoot backup failures &
• remediate the same.
• Good understanding of Network Connectivity and protocols with respect to the UNIX platform
• Exposure on ticketing tools like Service Now
• Understanding & experience working on DNS, FTP & NFS.

• Essential Skills/Basic Qualification
• Engineering graduate with experience in supporting enterprise Unix
• RedHat Linux and IT Il. foundation certified.
• Excellent knowledge of Veritas volume manager, Veritas cluster and VVR
• Knowledge on AIX/Cloud

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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