Sysops Engineer

3 weeks ago


Farnborough, United Kingdom Akkodis Full time

**SysOps Engineer - Linux**

Akkodis are currently working with a leading service provider to recruit an experienced SysOps Engineer with excellent knowledge of building and maintaining on prem Linux environments.

As a SysOps Engineer you will be joining a SysOps team responsible for internal systems, network and infrastructure. The team plans, installs, maintains, and monitors the network, server and storage infrastructure alongside a team of developers and testers,ensuring the highest levels of good security practice.

**This role offers fully remote working, but you must live in commutable distance of Farnborough for occasional visits to the datacentre.**

**The Role**

As a SysOps Engineer you will be working with the below technologies (experience of some or all of these technologies would be welcome.

Server technology stack is a CISCO network stack supporting Rocky and CentOS servers, with VMWare used for virtualised servers. A blend of Apache and Nginx web servers, an Elasticsearch data layer and MySQL, PHP and Python for the software stack. The systemsare managed on an Infrastructure-as-Configuration basis. Planned systems development include use of microservice architecture through technologies like Kubernetes and Docker.

**The Requirements**
- Strong Linux experience (3+ years)
- Hardware Installation and Maintenance
- Must be in the UK South-West ideally near Farnborough/Reading/Basingstoke
- UK Driving License

Desirable skills
- Rocky/CentOs/RedHat
- VMWare (VSphere)
- Ansible or other IaC tools
- MySQL/MariaDB Database
- Shell scripting
- Web hosting (Nginx/Apache)
- Networking (DNS, DHCP, Firewalls)
- Kubernetes, Docker, etc
- Elasticsearch
- CI/CD
- Python/PHP

Both Modis International Ltd and Modis Europe Ltd are Equal Opportunities Employers.