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**Senior Linux Platform Engineer, Leeds** As a **Senior Linux Platform Engineer**, you'll manage Bank of England's (BoE) critical Linux estate, ensuring reliability and security. Main duties include system administration, automation, security hardening, and cross-team collaboration. This role requires proficiency in Linux (RHEL), experience in air-gapped environments, and knowledge of lifecycle management tools like Red Hat Satellite. Proven problem-solving skills and a structured approach to engineering tasks are crucial. This senior role offers a competitive benefits package and flexible working options, with a 40% in-office attendance requirement.
- Compensation
- Not specified GBP
- City
- Leeds
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: £ (GBP)
Full Job Description
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom
Location: Leeds
Flexible working options
This role is open to flexible working patterns, these may include:
- Flexible start and end time to each day
- Ability to adapt calendar as needed, this could be to fit in the school run, gym, or appointments
- A 40% in-office attendance requirement can be spread across the month to accommodate diverse working patterns, such as the flexibility to purchase a weekly train ticket for certain weeks
Opportunities in Leeds
Were excited to be growing our presence in Leeds, a city weve been connected to for nearly 200 years! Our modern, accessible office in the City Centre offers a supportive, flexible working environment. The majority of roles, including this one, are now available in Leeds, giving you the chance to build a meaningful career outside of London while contributing to our mission from a dynamic and growing location. Youll work collaboratively with London-based colleagues in a hybrid model, with regular opportunities to travel into the London office to meet and connect together in person.
Want to learn more? Discover what makes our Leeds office such a dynamic place to work by visiting our Welcome to the Bank of England in Leeds | Bank of England page for more details.
A day in the role
A typical day might start with the teams stand-up meeting for the current sprint, where youll discuss your workload and any blockers. We usually meet at 09:45am to allow for a flexible start to the day. You may be joining from our Leeds office with colleagues visiting from London, or remotely as part of our hybrid model with London-based peers.
Next, you may have some project work to do or a planning meeting to attend, where youll be modernising the platform through the services youre responsible for. After that, you may draft and raise a change request through the Banks formal processes to implement O/S upgrades the following week. If youre in the office, you could lunch in the canteen with some of your colleagues.
During the afternoon, you may receive a call from a user about an O/S related issue. Once youve sorted that call, youll document the fix and any raise any code changes as required. The afternoon could be spent chatting to vendor's technical account team about upcoming features, or working on improvements that would benefit the team.
Role Requirements
The CNI Platform is hosted onpremise and is segregated from the outside world, which presents a distinct set of operational and security challenges. As a Senior Linux Engineer, you will be primarily responsible for the ongoing support, reliability, and development of the Linux estate within CNI.
You will work closely with colleagues across Compute, Storage, Networks, Oracle, and DevOps teams. The role spans Linux systems running on physical servers, virtual machines, and containers within OpenShift (OCP).
Highlevel responsibilities include:
- Linux system administration
- System reliability, availability, and operational support
- Automation and configuration management
- Security hardening and compliance
- Platform and infrastructure integration
- Documentation, standards, and operational runbooks
- Strong collaboration with crossfunctional teams
- Clear and effective technical communication with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
The role requires participation in an outofhours support rota and the flexibility to work outofhours where required to support businesscritical systems.
Minimum Criteria
- A high level of demonstrable technical expertise in Linux operating systems (e.g. RHEL) within a businesscritical enterprise environment
- Experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting Linux on both physical and virtual infrastructure
- Experience working within a disconnected (air-gapped, non-cloud) environment
- Solid understanding of Linux system hardening and security best practices
- Working knowledge of Mandatory Access Control (MAC) concepts and SELinux
- Knowledge of lifecycle management tooling (e.g. Red Hat Satellite, Ansible Automation Platform)
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)
- Familiarity with automated build and deployment tooling (e.g. Jenkins, Packer or equivalents)
Essential Criteria
- Understanding of DevOps principles and modern operational practices
- Experience monitoring performance and health across physical and virtual estates
- Strong problem solving skills, including engaging effectively with vendors and internal partners to resolve complex issues
- Scripting capability (e.g. Bash, Python)
- Understanding of ITIL / ITSM processes and tooling (incident, problem, and change management) - understanding of when to appropriately escalate to or inform others
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, and deliver to tight timelines
- Strong analytical mindset with a structured approach to problem solving
- Mindset that seeks to continually improve everything -ability and willingness to constructively improve the estate and supporting processes
Desirable Criteria
- Compliance as Code and infrastructure testing (e.g. OpenSCAP, Chef InSpec or equivalents)
- Experience with virtualisation and container platforms (e.g. VMware, HyperFlex, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Podman)
- Knowledge of SecurebyDesign and DevSecOps practices
- Storage technologies (e.g. Pure Storage, Cohesity block, file, and object)
- Backup and recovery platforms (e.g. Commvault, hyperscale backup solutions)
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tools and processes
- Cisco UCS compute platforms
- Splunk or similar observability / logging platforms
- Networking fundamentals relevant to modern enterprise environments
- Working knowledge of Git, GitHub, and distributed version control systems
How this role fits into the wider Bank
Work for an organisation steeped in history with a front row seat for the digitisation of the financial sector, and the rise of FinTech and RegTech. With our people at our centre, Technology enable the Bank of England to deliver its mission by providing a diverse set of technical solutions and platforms. From supporting critical systems which underpin the UK economy, to evolving data analytics, reinventing our online presence, and introducing a fully digital workplace. Be part of a team thats constantly evolving, just like our industry.
- Currently a non-contributory, career average pension giving you a guaranteed retirement benefit of 1/80th of your annual salary for every year worked. There is the option to increase your pension (to 1/65th) or decrease (to 1/105th) in exchange for salary through our flexible benefits programme each year. The Bank has the discretion to vary standard accrual rates and dial up and dial down rates at any time and to withdraw dial up and dial down options at any time.
- A discretionary performance award based on a current award pool.
- An 8% benefits allowance with the option to take as salary or purchase a wide range of flexible benefits.
- 26 days annual leave with option to buy up to 12 additional days through flexible benefits.
- Private medical insurance and income protection.
The Bank of England welcomes applications from all candidates, but as a UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approved sponsor, we have a responsibility to comply with the Immigration Rules and guidance. As such, our ability to employ individuals who require sponsorship for immigration purposes is limited. The Bank cannot guarantee that you and / or the role you are applying for will be eligible for sponsorship and that any application made to UKVI will be successful. Eligibility will therefore be considered on a case by case basis.
