Senior Linux Engineer
| Job Type | Contract |
| Location | Glasgow/ Hybrid |
| Area | Scotland, UK |
| Sector | Digital Tech: IT Ops |
| Salary | £600 Per Day |
| Start Date | August 12th, 2026 |
| Advertiser | Priyanka Dubey |
| Job Ref | 7631-PSR1JP00104927 |
| IR35 | Inside |
| Security Clearance | SC |
- Description
- The Client:
A government client is looking for a Senior Linux Engineer to join them on a 12 month contract. This position will be based in Glasgow/ Hybrid.
Job Summary:
The Senior Linux Engineer (Contractor) will deliver advanced technical expertise across enterprise Linux environments to ensure stability, security, and performance. The role focuses on engineering delivery, sprint participation, automation, troubleshooting, and platform improvements. The contractor is expected to work autonomously and deliver high quality output aligned to sprint commitments and project timelines.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for maintaining operational SLA’s for Linux infrastructure incidents across the service, involving both physical and virtual servers, DNS, NTP, RHEL Directory Services, Proxy, database, Satellite infrastructure.
- Working with Ansible Core to automate within the environment.
- Responsible for monitoring, alerting and maintenance of the ROSA Linux Infrastructure across all environments
- Working in support of BAU and Project implementation activities. Ensuring the relevant artefacts are in place for the team to be able to support, Project and BAU activities.
- Implement strategic and technical roadmaps for the aligned Linux Infrastructure and hosted applications. Ensuring infrastructure is kept up to date.
- Ensure that all new components and installations meet or exceed the RSO internal and regulatory requirements.
- Work within the wider organisations DevOps strategy to provide automated solutions where possible, working with applications running in Kubernetes or Docker clusters.
- Own responsibility for changes across the environment within your technical discipline and ensure they are implemented according to agreed business processes.
- Monitor trends to be able to proactively respond to issues to support the business needs.
- Develop the creation of documentation, processes, and policies to ensure necessary governance and reporting is in place.
- Responsible for all Incident, Problem and Risk Management within your technical discipline.
- Assisting more junior team members with learning and development as required.
- Liaise with vendors and product owners on product support and product roadmaps.
- Collaborate with the other Engineers across the Engineering function and support on initiatives as needed.
Skills and Experience
- Experience in a similar Senior Engineer role in Linux Engineering in a complex IT Infrastructure.
- Acting as a senior technical Linux resource across the engineering function.
- Experience with virtualized networking principles and platforms (VMware/Hyper-V).
- Experience with containers, Docker and Kubernetes.
- Advanced experience with Bash and Python.
- Good understanding of common services, applications and protocols, for example HTTPS, SSH, DNS, NTP and SSL.
- Experience with open-source Ansible automation tooling.
- Good understanding of troubleshooting Linux issues to 4th line.
- Demonstrable experience of Agile / DevOps working practices.
- Experience of systems monitoring infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of Confluence, Jira and JSM.
- Sound understanding of database technologies, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL.
- Manage Linux certificates across the environment.
- Good experience of squid.
- Responsible for driving all system upgrades across Linux tooling.
- Good understanding across IT On-Prem and Cloud based infrastructure.
Desirable
- You will have relevant Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or Systems Engineering qualification, or equivalent related qualifications or experience.
- Experience working in a Cloud Infrastructure Environment; AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Experience with managing CEPH Storage or Linux storage environments.
Supplementary Information
- May involve occasional out?of?hours work for maintenance or incident response.
- Occasional travel between sites depending on the organisation.
An active SC clearance is required for this role. At a minimum, candidates must be eligible and willing to undergo security clearance. Due to the short-term nature of the contract and the urgency of the requirement, the client may prioritise applicants who already hold active SC clearance and meet all essential criteria.
Our Company:
Malikshaw Interim & Executive is a specialist provider of talent management solutions helping our clients transform the delivery of our public services. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we combine providing the best talent with delivering diverse, inclusive workforces and particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented. These include people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, LGBTQI+ people, and women.
How to Apply:
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- Responsible for maintaining operational SLA’s for Linux infrastructure incidents across the service, involving both physical and virtual servers, DNS, NTP, RHEL Directory Services, Proxy, database, Satellite infrastructure.
