Linux Principal Engineer II
6 month contract (likely to extend)
Fully Remote (within EU)
Daily Rate Contract
Our client is seeking an experienced Linux Engineer with expertise across Linux platforms, enterprise storage, container technologies, automation, and infrastructure engineering. This is a hands-on role with responsibility for designing, supporting, and improving critical enterprise platforms.
Core Technical Requirements
Essential Experience
• Enterprise Linux administration (RHEL, CentOS, Oracle Linux or similar)
• IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) administration and performance optimisation
• OpenShift and Kubernetes platform management
• Infrastructure automation using Bash, Python, Ansible and/or Terraform
• Performance tuning, monitoring and capacity planning
• Linux security hardening and enterprise networking (TCP/IP, DNS, Load Balancing)
• High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) environments
Desirable
• Public cloud exposure (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• DevOps and CI/CD practices
• Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or ELK
• RHCE, RHCA or CKA certifications
Key Responsibilities
• Design and support enterprise Linux infrastructure and platforms
• Lead technical troubleshooting and root cause analysis
• Drive infrastructure improvements, automation and engineering best practices
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, DevOps and application teams
Please note, this role does not offer sponsorship and requires the consultant to engage with no work restrictions within the EU.