Systems and Infrastructure Engineer, Linux, AWS Full Time

I am currently recruiting for a Systems and Infrastructure Engineer with strong Linux expertise to join my clients IT Infrastructure team and help deliver reliable, high-quality services across the organisation.

In this role, you will work closely with Infrastructure, Development, and DevOps teams to ensure robust processes are in place for building, maintaining, and optimising a range of internal and customer-facing environments. You will play a key part in driving efficient, automated approaches to infrastructure operations and continuous improvement.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Using automation tools and processes to manage infrastructure tasks, including environment builds, scaling, self-healing, monitoring, and patching.
• Supporting and maintaining the organisation’s Linux estate.
• Supporting and maintaining AWS infrastructure.
• Working closely with Software Development and DevOps teams to meet their infrastructure requirements.
• Proactively researching and recommending improvements to enhance efficiency and maintain high service levels.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation and ensuring all system changes follow change management processes.
• Ensuring systems comply with relevant internal controls, policies, and procedures.

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong experience with Linux technologies, including Ubuntu, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Postfix, and Git.
• Experience with configuration and infrastructure management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, and Ninja.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services, ideally including EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server services, including Active Directory, Group Policy, and DNS.
• Scripting skills in Python and Bash.
• Solid understanding of IT security fundamentals.
• Ability to manage customer expectations, SLAs, and competing priorities effectively.
• A proactive approach to staying current with technology trends and industry developments.

Desirable skills:

• Understanding of Service Management disciplines, ideally aligned with the ITIL framework.
• Strong relationship-building skills with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Experience working alongside software development teams, providing guidance on best practices to ensure performance and availability.

This role is urgent and will be a 1 stage onsite interview so please apply ASAP should you be interested!