Linux Solutions Engineer (Python & Bash) – Buckinghamshire  

£75,000-£85,000

Innovative data storage solutions company with a range of high-profile clients are looking for an experienced and talented Linux Solutions Engineer to join their expanding team.  The role will act as a technical bridge developing between technical operations and core development teams within the business. You will translate field requirements and improvement opportunities into development needs, as well as providing internal training to support, professional services and pre-sales engineers on new product features and enhancements.

Responsibilities:

• 3rd level support for deployed solutions and technologies.
• Develop & support the product demo & benchmarking infrastructure, ensuring it is up to date, fully documented, and configured to best show company products and solutions.
• Resolve/improve issues with the relevant development teams.
• Identify opportunities for automation and/or tasks to improve technical function.
• Generation of both internal and customer-facing documentation.
• Provide regular operational and management updates regarding current field issues, associated workarounds, expected fixes.

Key Skills Needed

• Expert in Linux operating systems and infrastructure.
• Experience in scripting with Python and/or BASH.
• Experience with high performance storage and technologies/protocols, such as NVMeOF, NVMe over TCP, RDMA, RoCE, PFC/ECN, iSER, SRP, iSCSI.
• Experience building, supporting, or maintaining a clustered or parallel filesystem such as Spectrum Scale, Lustre, Quantum Stornext, BeeGFS.
• Experience with any of the following tools CTDB, Pacemaker/Corosync, CI tools, Git, Elasticsearch/Kibana, Prometheus & Grafana
• Knowledge of task / message queue services such as Celery, RabbitMQ and Redis
• Knowledge of Python web development frameworks such as Django and Flask

Profile:

• Strong experience of working with cloud infrastructure as a service
• Strong experience of working with enterprise hardware
• Strong team work and internal-communication
• Be flexible and autonomous
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
• Great documentation skills
• Proficient in English, written and spoken

Benefits

• 5% employer pension contribution and employer match up to 8%
• Access to Employee Assistance Programme
• Annual eye test
• Private Medical insurance, life insurance and death in service on commencement of Employment
• Access to Medicash plan
• Electric Car Scheme