Linux Platform Engineer

Salary: £120,011 - 120,011 per year

Requirements:

• Strong commercial Linux administration experience, ideally across RHEL, CentOS, or AlmaLinux
• Experience with patching, kernel tuning, LVM, and filesystem management
• VMware ESXi administration experience
• Knowledge of Foreman for package and repository management
• Experience with Ansible and AWX automation
• Strong networking knowledge including firewalld and iptables
• Identity management experience using LDAP, Active Directory, and SSSD
• Exposure to container technologies, ideally Podman
• Experience supporting enterprise middleware and infrastructure services

Responsibilities:

• Administer and support enterprise Linux environments
• Manage patching, kernel updates, LVM, and filesystem administration
• Maintain package repositories and lifecycle management through Foreman
• Support VMware ESXi virtual infrastructure, templates, snapshots, and BAU operations
• Configure and manage host networking including firewalld and iptables
• Administer identity services including SSSD, LDAP, and Active Directory integration
• Develop and maintain automation using Ansible and AWX
• Help modernise legacy applications using Podman containers
• Support core platform services including Redis, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, MySQL, Memcache, Postfix, and HAProxy
• Contribute to platform improvements, security initiatives, and operational excellence

Technologies:

• Active Directory
• Ansible
• ElasticSearch
• Foreman
• Support
• LDAP
• Linux
• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Podman
• Postfix
• RHEL
• RabbitMQ
• Redis
• Security
• VMware
• DevOps

More:

We are partnering with an Edinburgh-based SaaS business seeking an experienced Linux Platform Engineer to join the infrastructure team. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will help maintain and evolve a large-scale Linux estate supporting business-critical platforms used by thousands of customers across the UK. The role is hybrid with 2 days onsite in Edinburgh and is an inside IR35 contract paying £425-£475 per day. You will work across Linux administration, automation, virtualisation, and modern infrastructure technologies to improve reliability, security, and performance.

last updated 32 week of 2026