Linux Systems Administrator

12 month Fixed Term contract - Fully remote working

Salary to £60k plus employee benefits package

Stratospherec is hiring for a new Linux Systems Administrator role for a fast-growing fintech SaaS company. My client are expanding their Tech Ops team and looking for an experienced Linux Administrator to manage a mix of cloud-based (AWS) and on-premise systems in a secure, regulated environment. You'll be joining a small, high-performing team where you'll have real ownership and visibility across the platform.

Essential experience you’ll need

* At least 5 years working in a similar Systems Administration role

* Maintaining SaaS workloads built on Linux in AWS or Azure

* Supporting Ubuntu and Debian Linux systems running on on-premise servers and cloud servers

* Administering Linux, ideally Ubuntu or other Debian-based distro

* Solid network administration skills – eg. configuring routers, firewalls, switches etc.

* Proven experience owning and finishing projects to a high standard

Additional skills that would be very useful are

* Provisioning infrastructure with Terraform or CloudFormation

* Managing server configurations with Ansible, Chef or similar tooling

* Scripting automation with Bash, Python or PowerShell

* Automation of CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, CircleCI or similar

* Deploy and manage monitoring tools (Zabbix, SolarW...