UNIX Platform Engineer
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Summary
Hands-on Linux platform engineer for a healthcare organisation's UNIX Platform team, administering an enterprise estate of ~300 servers (95% Red Hat) across on-prem, virtualised and cloud. Day to day: Ansible-automated patching to strict SLAs, hardening/compliance, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and a rotating on-call roster.
A leading healthcare organisation is looking for an experienced Linux Platform Engineer to join their UNIX Platform team. You'll be responsible for the administration, automation, security and operational support of an enterprise Linux estate of around 300 servers, 95% Red Hat, supporting business-critical healthcare services and users across 15 business units.
This is a hands-on system administration role, with a focus on Ansible-automated patching and meeting strict patching SLAs. It suits an engineer who takes pride in keeping systems secure, stable and compliant, and who enjoys working in a collaborative team.
About you
You take pride in doing the job well and meeting your SLAs. You're calm and solutions-focused under pressure, take ownership of problems, and bring strong attention to detail and operational discipline. You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical people, work well with people from a range of backgrounds, and enjoy learning new technologies.
What you'll bring
What you'll do
What's on offer
To be considered, you must have full Australian working rights. A police check and reference checks apply. Aliza Huff at NTP Talent is leading this search. Apply now or message Aliza - aliza@ntptalent.com.au for a confidential chat.
This is a hands-on system administration role, with a focus on Ansible-automated patching and meeting strict patching SLAs. It suits an engineer who takes pride in keeping systems secure, stable and compliant, and who enjoys working in a collaborative team.
About you
You take pride in doing the job well and meeting your SLAs. You're calm and solutions-focused under pressure, take ownership of problems, and bring strong attention to detail and operational discipline. You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical people, work well with people from a range of backgrounds, and enjoy learning new technologies.
What you'll bring
- Minimum 8 years' experience supporting Red Hat Linux in large enterprise environments - Hands-on experience with Ansible
- Strong understanding of Linux internals, performance tuning, troubleshooting and security hardening
- Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python or Shell
- Experience with VMware vSphere, enterprise storage, backup and disaster recovery
- Understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, LDAP and authentication services
- Experience in ITIL-aligned environments using ServiceNow, Jira Service Management or similar
- Experience supporting mission-critical infrastructure in a 24x7 environment Highly regarded - AWS experience
- Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code
- Monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or ELK - RHCSA, RHCE or ITIL Foundation certification
- Experience in healthcare or other regulated environments
What you'll do
- Administer and support an enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) estate, with some Ubuntu, across on-premises, virtualised and cloud environments
- Deliver monthly automated patching through Ansible and maintain a 95% patching SLA
- Manage operating system lifecycle activities, including provisioning, upgrades, vulnerability remediation and decommissioning
- Troubleshoot complex operating system, storage, networking and application-related issues
- Work with Cyber Security to implement hardening, compliance and vulnerability management
- Support high availability, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions
- Work within ITIL incident, problem, change and major incident management processes
- Partner with stakeholders across multiple business units
- Maintain technical documentation, standards and operating procedures
- Take part in a rotating on-call roster (one week in every 5 to 6)
What's on offer
- $350 weekly on-call allowance, paid whether or not you're called out, plus time in lieu for call-outs
- AWS training as the organisation modernises its cloud
- A supportive and collaborative team
- Hybrid working, with 3 days a week in Macquarie Park
To be considered, you must have full Australian working rights. A police check and reference checks apply. Aliza Huff at NTP Talent is leading this search. Apply now or message Aliza - aliza@ntptalent.com.au for a confidential chat.