18th November 2025
Linux/Unix Infrastructure Support Specialist
Infrastructure
London
£85,000 - £90,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus
Linux/Unix Infrastructure Support Specialist
London (Canary Wharf) – hybrid
£85,000 – £90,000 per annum + annual discretionary bonus
On behalf of an industry Leading financial services organisation, I am seeking an experienced Linux/Unix Infrastructure Support Specialist.
Linux/Unix Infrastructure Support Specialist will provide support for the Production Linux environments with Symantec Clustering Technology. Responsibilities include Linux backup/restores, daily checks, maintenance tasks and building new systems and applying service packs. Manage and escalate problems as appropriate.
The organisation offers hybrid working with a non-negotiable 2 days a week in their London office, therefore you must be within reasonable commuting distance to London.
Responsibilities:
- Provide support for the Production Linux environments with Symantec Clustering Technology.
- Responsibilities include Linux backup/restores, daily checks, maintenance tasks and building new systems and applying service packs.
- Manage and escalate problems as appropriate.
- Ensure that the BAU service is prioritised, and all incidents, problems and service requests are responded to in an efficient manner without negatively impacting SLA’s and reporting metrics in place.
- Investigate defects or problems; work with internal teams and external vendors to Identify solutions and support any fixes that are required as part of service improvement.
- Follow the Change Management procedure and other standard practices in installing, configuring and supporting Linux Cluster and Linux Infrastructure and relates items in Test and Production environments.
- Upgrade or maintain software at a time when the impact to the business is minimised.
- Execute the failover for the Linux and application services as required.
- Create, maintain and review operational process and support documentation.
- Perform daily/weekly/quarterly system checks.
- Ensure any issues identified are tracked and addressed.
Skills/Experience required:
- Prior IT operational support experience across business-critical Production infrastructure support, applications and database services.
- Experienced in Linux, Unix, Automation (Ansible or equivalent) and AWS.
- Experience in maintaining and supporting the enterprise Production Linux server domain, VMware Virtual Infrastructure environment, datacentre server hardware infrastructure
- Strong communicator with the ability to efficiently interact with people at all levels.
- Possess a strong service-oriented mind set who can consistently deliver a high level of service to the business.
- A high level of presentation and communications skills with the ability to communicate confidently with both business and technical staff at all levels.
- Industry standard IT certification – AWS/Linux (Redhat)/VMware/Symantec VCS would be highly advantageous
- ITIL certification.
Consultant - Brendan Connolly
Telephone: 0207 392 7512
Email: brendan.connolly@spencer-rose.com
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