Linux DevOps Senior Engineer

Rackspace Technology is a leading provider of expertise and managed services across all the major public and private cloud technologies. We’ve evolved Fanatical Support to encompass the entire customer journey — providing Fanatical Experience™ from first consultation to daily operations. Our passionate experts combine the power of proactive, always-on service and expertise with best-in-class tools and automation to deliver technology when and how our customers need it.We are looking for a senior-level Cloud Engineer with strong Linux OS competency to be responsible for complex large scaled-out infrastructure deployments implementations and issues that may take several weeks or months to implement and/or resolve. You will need to apply creative problem-solving techniques to identify the source of various problems and keep management aware of every step along the way.As part of the role creating automation in a DevOps mindset we are looking for fluency in Linux, plus at least one of the following:- Ansible
- Terraform
- Python
You will be expected to proactively call out potential pitfalls that the product may experience using existing or planned methods and suggest architectural alternatives that may better serve the stability and security of the solution. You will also be responsible for solving the platform’s technical issues which can include OS level web server caching message queuing database server applications server DNS SMTP or other software issues. Senior Engineers must continually propose and implement system enhancements (software and hardware updates) that will improve the performance and reliability of the Cloud Products. Requirements
Mustbeabletoworkfrom Tuesday - Saturday,andjoinanOn-Call rota to be available as an escalation point.
MustbeeligibletoundergoSCClearance(youneedtohaveheldaUK passport for 5 years).
2daysperweek on-site in Cardiff (the rest of the time you may work remotely).

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