Linux Engineer
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- England,North East,Tyne and Wear,Newcastle upon Tyne
- full-time
- £33,600 - £49,000 per annum
Job Description:
Business Unit: Chief Operating Office
Salary Range: £33,600 - £49,000 per annum
Location: Remote - work from anywhere within the UK
Be a change maker with more cha-ching. Live a life more Virgin.
Our Team
The Platform Engineering Team sits within Technology Operations & Cyber Security (TOCS) and is responsible for supporting, maintaining, and innovating the Bank’s underpinning platforms and technologies.
The core aspect of your role will be to support the management of the Operational Platform, with a focus on the Linux Server Estate. This will involve collaboration with internal customers, partners and external customers to deliver excellent service and ensure our systems are efficient, performant, resilient where emerging technology threats & risks are managed and change to our systems are managed effectively.
What you’ll be doing…
*Innovating, supporting and maintaining the Virgin Money Linux server estate for Operational Platform.
*Supporting the management of Patching lifecycles, including scheduling, deployment & verification.
*Engineering, validating, implementing and quality assuring technical solutions.
*Supporting projects implementing new infrastructure into the datacentres.
*Supporting root cause analysis and remediation of issues.
*Working closely with others to estimate work, manage domain scope, risks and issues.
*Collaborating with internal and external parties to provide excellent customer service.
*Collaborating with project teams to ensure that change within the environment is managed and controlled effectively.
We need you to have…
*Strong sys admin skills and engineering experience of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
*Satellite (install, Configure, manage)
*Experience of server implementation, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring and automation (Infrastructure as Code) with Ansible, AAP
*VMware (upgrade, manage)
*Understanding of Networking Technologies
*Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to own, diagnose and resolve platforms issues.
*Understanding of cybersecurity principles, vulnerability management
*Python, Bash, API’s and data structures in JSON/YAML or other
*Engineering mindset able to challenge the status quo and automate manual processes to deliver additional value.
*Exceptional communication & teamwork skills
*Flexibility. The role may require occasional evening or weekend work
It’s a bonus if you have but not essential…
*Experience of Veritas Infoscale, VCS, Solaris and Ideally Server Hardware Management and maintenance
*Great if you have had exposure of Red Hat Openshift, ARO or AKS
*Experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tooling and working within an ITIL framework
*Working in Multi-disciplinary Agile teams
Red Hot Rewards
*Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more.
*Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
*20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
*Market-leading pension.
*Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
*Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
And there’s no waiting around, you’ll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role?
If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We’re all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with. We’re putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people’s lives. We’re customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ’Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we’re able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.
Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we’re committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team
Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you’re successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years’ worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we’ll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.
Salary Range: £33,600 - £49,000 per annum
Location: Remote - work from anywhere within the UK
Be a change maker with more cha-ching. Live a life more Virgin.
Our Team
The Platform Engineering Team sits within Technology Operations & Cyber Security (TOCS) and is responsible for supporting, maintaining, and innovating the Bank’s underpinning platforms and technologies.
The core aspect of your role will be to support the management of the Operational Platform, with a focus on the Linux Server Estate. This will involve collaboration with internal customers, partners and external customers to deliver excellent service and ensure our systems are efficient, performant, resilient where emerging technology threats & risks are managed and change to our systems are managed effectively.
What you’ll be doing…
*Innovating, supporting and maintaining the Virgin Money Linux server estate for Operational Platform.
*Supporting the management of Patching lifecycles, including scheduling, deployment & verification.
*Engineering, validating, implementing and quality assuring technical solutions.
*Supporting projects implementing new infrastructure into the datacentres.
*Supporting root cause analysis and remediation of issues.
*Working closely with others to estimate work, manage domain scope, risks and issues.
*Collaborating with internal and external parties to provide excellent customer service.
*Collaborating with project teams to ensure that change within the environment is managed and controlled effectively.
We need you to have…
*Strong sys admin skills and engineering experience of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
*Satellite (install, Configure, manage)
*Experience of server implementation, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring and automation (Infrastructure as Code) with Ansible, AAP
*VMware (upgrade, manage)
*Understanding of Networking Technologies
*Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to own, diagnose and resolve platforms issues.
*Understanding of cybersecurity principles, vulnerability management
*Python, Bash, API’s and data structures in JSON/YAML or other
*Engineering mindset able to challenge the status quo and automate manual processes to deliver additional value.
*Exceptional communication & teamwork skills
*Flexibility. The role may require occasional evening or weekend work
It’s a bonus if you have but not essential…
*Experience of Veritas Infoscale, VCS, Solaris and Ideally Server Hardware Management and maintenance
*Great if you have had exposure of Red Hat Openshift, ARO or AKS
*Experience of Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery tooling and working within an ITIL framework
*Working in Multi-disciplinary Agile teams
Red Hot Rewards
*Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if Part–Time) plus the option to buy more.
*Up to five extra paid well-being days per year.
*20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
*Market-leading pension.
*Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
*Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
And there’s no waiting around, you’ll enjoy these benefits from day one.
Feeling insatiably curious about this role?
If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out. We’re all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.
Say hello to Virgin Money
We’re making great strides towards achieving our ambition of becoming the UK’s best digital bank. As a full-service digital bank with a heritage stretching back over 180 years, we’re a workforce to be reckoned with. We’re putting the full power of our experience behind disruptive ideas that reinvent the role a bank plays in people’s lives. We’re customer obsessed and work tirelessly to create positive experiences for our millions of customers and deliver on our purpose, ’Making You Happier About Money.’ Our customer centric culture means that we’re able to do banking differently and by innovating and working together we can make a real difference. Join us and Live a Life More Virgin that empowers you with choice and flexibility in how you work.
Be yourself at Virgin Money
Our purpose is to make people happier about money, this means seeing and feeling the world as our customers do by creating a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of our customers and communities. We’re committed to creating an inclusive culture where colleagues feel safe and inspired to contribute, speak up and be heard.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we’re committed to removing any obstacles to inclusion. If you need any reasonable adjustments or support making your application, contact our Talent Acquisition team
Now the legal bit
Living A Life More Virgin allows our colleagues to be based anywhere in the UK (if the role allows it), but we’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK.
If you’re successful in securing a role with us, there are some checks you need to complete before starting. These include credit and criminal record checks and three years’ worth of satisfactory references. If the role is part of the Senior Manager Regime and Certification Regime, it requires enhanced pre-employment checks - we’ll ask for six years of regulatory references, and once in the role, you’ll be subject to periodic employment checks.
Job number 1807820
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Company Details:
Virgin Money
Company size: 5,000 employees
Industry: Banking
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