Senior Linux Engineer

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Job Description

Senior Linux Engineer

Location: Stevenage - This position requires occasional travel to sites within the Greater London area and Southeast. This role is based fully on site, 5 days a week.

We seek a collaborative professional to join our team in delivering superior Linux Support alongside a group of skilled experts, each contributing across multiple contracts to ensure robust Linux solutions. This position offers an exceptional opportunity to enhance your specialist expertise within a dynamic and evolving sector. Our core objective is to design, implement, and maintain secure and reliable Linux environments. As a Senior Linux Engineer, you will leverage your background with Linux-based clusters to support a high-performance computing platform aligned with rigorous security standards.

Role Benefits

• Career Development: Be part of a team that values continuous learning.
• Skill Growth: Work with diverse technologies across various contracts.
• Collaboration: Join a skilled, supportive team, mentoring colleagues and solving complex challenges.

Who We're Looking For

• Strong stakeholder management and customer skills, willing to work onsite.
• Ambitious and committed to personal growth.
• Automation-focused, eager to enhance scripting (BASH, Python, Ansible).
• Customer service, infrastructure support, or network administration experience is beneficial.

Your Role

• Support Linux Infrastructure across multiple contracts.
• Share expertise within the team and implement best practices.
• Help define operational processes and resolve escalations.
• Build strong relationships with customers and internal teams.
• Occasionally assist with pre-sales or future system designs.

Required Skills & Experience

• Red Hat Certified Engineer or equivalent experience.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Strong intra and inter team communication skills
• Strong experience with Linux administration and support across several different distributions
• Experience with Linux in an integrated Windows / Active directory environment
• Experience with Linux automation systems such as Ansible
• Experience with Linux scripting across several different languages - preferably Bash, Python and at least one other
• Experience of Clustered environments and cluster orchestration tools
• Experience of clustered, parallel file systems, such as Lustre
• Knowledge of HPC management systems, such as Bright
• Network administration, such as Mellanox InfiniBand mesh and Ethernet networks
• Storage administration, such as: DDN, NetApp, IBM, or Dell EMC
• Experience managing batch scheduling systems, such as, PBS Pro, Slurm, SGE/UGE, Microsoft Scheduler

Please note: It's still worth applying even if you do not meet all the requirements above. We are passionate about investing in you and your career and if you have the transferable skills/ background in IT Support this could be the next opportunity for you.

This role will require you to become security cleared to a high level. Please visit National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Your benefits:

26 Days annual leave plus public holidays (3 flexible)

Pension - Double matching contributions of up to 10%

Life assurance

Companywide incentive plans

Your choices (Flexible benefits such as increased holidays / travel / dental critical illness and more)

Perks at work - employee discounts

Employee assistance programme / virtual GP

Flexible Working: Work Your Way is our approach to flexible working with 1 hour a week allowance.

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of a one stage interview.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Email EMEIArecruitment@fujitsu.com if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

Achieve together

We are recognised as a responsible and inclusive employer: Not only are we a certified Disability Confident Leader, a Times Top 50 employer for Gender Equality, a Top 75 employer for Social Mobility, accredited with the Living Wage Foundation and a signatory for the Race at Work Charter, but we are also committed to the United Nations standards for LGBTI+ and a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.

We are people centric: Our work environments enable you to Be Completely You. Our active people-led Inclusive Community networks are representative of all aspects of diversity and are instrumental in enabling and supporting our innovative approach to inclusion.

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