Tusker - Linux System Engineer

• JOB TITLE: Linux System Engineer

• SALARY: £ £49788-£60852

• LOCATION(S): Watford

• HOURS: Full-time

• WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per or 40% of our time at our Watford office.

About this Opportunity

Assists with designing, building and unit testing code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect. Working in one of our cross-disciplinary teams engineers will have the opportunity to develop their technical knowledge and understanding as well develop, practice and demonstrate the workplace skills and behaviours required for this job role.

• Support the existing Tusker web environments, both production and pre-production.

• Work closely with the Tusker development team to assist in the delivery of projects.

• Application of patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.

• Installation of new IT equipment (servers, services, settings, storage, policies, etc.).

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We’re an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future. We’re committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers. Please visit for more information www.tuskerdirect.com

What you’ll need

• You will need experience in the following programs Linux (Ubuntu and Debian preferred) AWS (EC2 and RDS), VMware, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Apache, NGINX

• Experience with monitoring tools is vital

• Delivers support services (mostly of a routine nature) by using customer systems and protocols. Already works within current standard IT security processes, systems, and procedures.

• Carries out simple knowledge management tasks by following established procedures in order to support others. Supports others by performing prescribed product development/engineering activities (e.g., analysing client situations, interpreting data, etc.) using existing procedures.

• Supports development of personal capabilities by pursuing existing formal and informal training opportunities

• Performs simple risk monitoring and assessment tasks by following established procedures in order to provide support to others. Implements improvements and offers feedback while using systems and protocols to provide routine support services.

• Follows existing procedures and precedents in resolving accurate course of action for routine functional enquiries. Develops testing standards and procedures by following general directions from professional staff.

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Physical servers with maintaining, servicing and using

• Experience with Puma, Windows server, Exchange, Dell Boomi Atoms

• Maintaining and improving DNS

• Maintaining and improving firewalls

• Experience with SAN storage

• Experience supporting database servers (Oracle preferred, Postgres or MySQL is also good) in a regulated environment and with compliance

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes –

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.

We’d love to hear from you.