Linux Systems and Data Centre Engineer

Linux Systems and Data Centre Engineer Remote / Slough to £65k Opportunity to progress your career at a global Fintech solutions provider. As a Linux Systems and Data Centre Engineer, you''ll operate and improve production Linux environments, managing Ubuntu fleets and LXD/LXC container platforms. You''ll provide L3 incident support across systems, containers, networking and storage, restoring services within SLAs and driving post incident reviews to improve reliability. You''ll also take ownership of datacentre operations in Slough, covering server installation, rack and stack, cabling, optics, power planning, out-of-band management, inventory and hardware replacements. You''ll also coordinate with vendors, carriers and datacentre partners. The role involves day-to-day network operations across switches and firewalls, including VLANs, ACLs, LAGs and basic routing, working closely with Network Engineering on changes. You''ll automate infrastructure and operational processes using Chef for configuration management and Terraform for AWS Infrastructure as Code, developing reliable tooling for deployments, configuration, pre-change checks and validation. Working within a Follow-the-Sun operations model, you''ll collaborate with EMEA and APAC colleagues to maintain resilient, reliable infrastructure and contribute to change management, maintaining runbooks, rollback plans, maintenance procedures and technical documentation, including network diagrams, inventories and SOPs. ..... full job details .....