Linux Engineer

Remote

London, United kingdom

£ 600 /day

Freelance

13-03-2025

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Job Specifications

Linux Engineer – £500-£600 per day – Inside IR35
Location: London office but we are open to you working remote from the UK

You'll be working for a company that prides itself on automation, infrastructure as code, and optimizing Linux environments. Your role? Managing and improving a heavily automated Linux infrastructure, writing scripts, and deploying configurations with Puppet/Ansible.

What you’ll be doing:
Managing Linux systems using Puppet or Ansible
Automating server builds and configurations
Deploying Kubernetes and managing AWS services (EC2, S3, ECS)
Bare metal datacenter deployments
Improving Puppet code lifecycle and automating deployments
Writing Python/Bash/Ruby scripts for automation

What you’ll need:
4+ years managing Linux environments (RHEL-based)
Strong Python scripting skills
Experience with Puppet or Ansible
AWS expertise (EC2, S3, ECS)
GIT version control experience
Knowledge of networking (IPv4, routing, multicast)
Hands-on experience with Linux monitoring tools

Bonus skills:
Jenkins or other CI/CD tools
AWS CloudFormation/OpenTofu/Terraform
IAM, Active Directory, or LDAP experience
Understanding of cybersecurity best practices

This role is all about automation and scripting—so if you love writing Python code to optimize Linux infrastructure, this one's for you.

Apply now and take your next contract to the next level!

About the Company

Harrington Starr is a multi-award winning financial technology recruitment business based in London, Belfast and New York City. Founded in 2010, we are specialists in technology, change & transformation and sales recruitment and have helped clients and candidates across 5 continents. Our diverse range of clients include banks, hedge funds, vendors, service providers, payment providers, asset managers, start-ups, disruptors and many more. The one thing they have in common though is that they trust Harrington Starr with their... Know more