Linux Systems Engineer
// Role Summary
Join Airbus Defence and Space's Digital Engineering team as a Linux Systems Administrator in Stevenage. You will architect, maintain, and optimize our Linux infrastructure, providing technical leadership and supporting diverse engineering projects.
// Key Responsibilities
- Architect, provision, configure, and maintain Linux systems and engineering hardware.
- Provide strategic technical guidance to project teams, capturing requirements and formulating strategies.
- Manage end-to-end configuration and deployment of workstations and servers.
- Collaborate with business managers and IT teams to solve technical challenges.
- Ensure infrastructure solutions comply with internal regulatory and security policies.
- Proactively identify and recommend infrastructure improvements and participate in R&D.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Airbus Defence and Space is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator to join their Digital Engineering team. You will play a crucial role in ensuring the reliability, efficiency, and continuous improvement of our engineering systems infrastructure. This position offers the opportunity to collaborate across various business projects, providing technical leadership to ensure our engineering staff are supported by robust, high-performing Linux environments.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Architect and Maintain Infrastructure: Design, provision, configure, and maintain the Linux systems and engineering hardware that underpin our development environment.
- Strategic Technical Guidance: Assist project teams during initiation and planning, capturing requirements and formulating technical strategies to ensure project success.
- Operational Excellence: Manage the end-to-end configuration and deployment of workstations and servers, ensuring they meet the specific needs of diverse engineering groups.
- Collaborative Problem Solving: Partner with business managers and IT teams to address technical challenges, ensuring that Linux technologies are effectively leveraged to deliver project solutions.
- Security and Compliance: Work closely with Security teams to ensure that all infrastructure solutions comply with internal regulatory and security policies.
- Continuous Improvement: Proactively identify and recommend improvements to existing infrastructure, participating in research and development to foster innovation.
What You'll Bring
- Demonstrable expertise in Linux systems administration, with a primary focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
- Proven experience in leveraging orchestration tools, such as Ansible, to streamline infrastructure management.
- Solid proficiency in one or more scripting languages (e.g., Python, BASH, PERL, or PowerShell) to automate tasks and improve efficiency.
- Proven ability to independently develop and deploy scalable, robust solutions based on Linux systems.
What's In It For You
Airbus offers a comprehensive benefits package including a competitive salary, annual profit share, contributory pension, share options, car leasing scheme, free onsite parking, season ticket loan, tax-free technology scheme, and discounted shopping. Enjoy a 37-hour week with flexible working, hybrid options, and additional time off in lieu. Benefit from personalised development plans, access to the Airbus Leadership University, and extensive e-learning resources. Health and wellbeing are supported through various benefits including 24/7 online GP and mental health support. Enhanced pay is provided for maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave.
About Airbus Defence and Space
Airbus Defence and Space is a global leader in space technology, working on innovations from satellites to planetary rovers. Their commitment to sustainability, including zero-carbon flight and space exploration, is at the core of their purpose.