Linux/Unix Engineer

Salary: £104,000 - 122,200 per year

Requirements

• We require active SC Clearance.
• We require sole UK nationality.
• We are looking for strong hands-on Linux/Unix engineers with deep Linux and Solaris administration capability.
• We require experience administering Linux systems such as RHEL or CentOS, or equivalent.
• We require strong experience administering legacy Solaris systems.
• We require knowledge of ZFS, system stability, and production support.
• We require core Unix engineering skills, including OS-level troubleshooting of CPU, memory, disk, and services.
• We require experience with system patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• We require scripting and automation skills, including shell scripting and basic tooling.
• We require production support experience in live enterprise environments.
• We require experience handling incident, problem, and change execution.
• We prefer experience in a highly regulated public-sector environment.

Responsibilities

• We support a security-critical production estate, including legacy Solaris platforms.
• We administer Linux and Solaris environments in a controlled production setting.
• We troubleshoot OS-level issues across CPU, memory, disk, and services.
• We perform system patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• We provide incident, problem, and change execution support.
• We use scripting and automation to support operational tasks.
• We operate independently in a secure, audited, highly regulated infrastructure.
• We support exit delivery across a mixed Linux and legacy Unix estate.

Technologies

• Support
• Linux
• RHEL
• Security
• Unix
• DevOps

More

We are hiring for a Linux/Unix Engineer on a 3-month contract, with possible extension, based in Manchester or Barrow on a hybrid 80% office and 20% remote arrangement. The role offers a rate of £470 per day inside IR35. This is a short-term opportunity for technically strong Unix engineers with Solaris expertise to join a security-critical, highly regulated production environment and support exit delivery. We encourage applications from experienced SC-cleared Linux/Unix engineers with deep Linux and Solaris administration capability, particularly those with public-sector experience.

last updated 28 week of 2026