Linux Ops Engineer

Linux Ops Engineer

One of our industry leading Financial clients is looking for a LINUX OPS ENGINEER for a 12 months contract located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The ideal start date is 3rd January 2019.

The LINUX OPS ENGINEER will be working in an Agile team and will be required to:

- Provide technical support to consumers of APIs and analyse problems (eg debugging, authentication issues, etc).
- Provide functional support.
- Determine test scenario's and execute functional and non-functional tests with consumers.
- Ensure proper implementation of security guidelines and Firewall rules.
- Ensure proper change management and governance procedures are followed.
- Being able to assist consumers with data mappings would be an added advantage

The LINUX OPS ENGINEER should have at least 75% of the following;

- Advanced Linux (RHEL) administrator skills.
- Understanding of Tomcat and Apache application Servers.
- Conceptual understanding of REST APIs, including the security and authentication aspects.
- Conceptual understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment, including tooling such as GIT and Nolio/Jenkins.
- Knowledge of ELK (Elastic Search, Logstash and Kibana).
- Strong analytical mindset.
- Good understanding of complex IT landscapes.
- Excellent communication skills in English and Dutch (both written and spoken).
- Experience with working in an Agile environment.
- At least 3 years' experience as Operations Engineer
- Knowledge of Service Now would be an added advantage

Please send in your latest CV to apply. If this is not a good time for you and you may know of someone more suited, I'm always happy to take referrals.