Red Hat Administrator
Posted 1 week ago by Thebes IT Solutions Ltd
Negotiable
Undetermined
Undetermined
London, UK
Summary: The Red Hat Administrator role focuses on leading the migration of Linux infrastructure from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The position requires extensive technical expertise in Linux system administration, automation, and troubleshooting to ensure a smooth transition with minimal downtime. The ideal candidate will possess hands-on migration experience and strong scripting skills, while maintaining high system availability and security. This role is critical for optimizing the performance and reliability of the organization's Linux systems.
Key Responsibilities:
- Plan, execute, and manage the migration of CentOS Servers to RHEL.
- Install, configure, and maintain RHEL systems in both physical and virtualized environments.
- Monitor and tune system performance to ensure optimal availability and reliability.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline deployments and configurations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enforce security, compliance, and operational best practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve OS, networking, and storage-related issues.
- Manage system backups, patching, and upgrades.
- Document migration plans, system configurations, and processes.
- Support and maintain Red Hat tools (eg, Satellite, subscription management).
- Contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS environments.
- Hands-on experience migrating Servers and applications from CentOS to RHEL.
- Strong knowledge of Linux internals, networking, security, and file systems.
- Proficiency in automation/configuration management tools (eg, Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
- Shell Scripting expertise (Bash; Python preferred).
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies (KVM, VMware).
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification (desirable).
- Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Subscription Management (desirable).
- Exposure to disaster recovery planning and execution (desirable).
- Experience documenting standard operating procedures and technical processes (desirable).
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Role: Red Hat Administrator (CentOS to RHEL Migration)
Location: UK
Duration: 6 months
Key Essential Skills:
- Proven experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and CentOS environments.
- Hands-on experience migrating Servers and applications from CentOS to RHEL.
- Strong knowledge of Linux internals, networking, security, and file systems.
- Proficiency in automation/configuration management tools (eg, Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
- Shell Scripting expertise (Bash; Python preferred).
- Familiarity with virtualization technologies (KVM, VMware).
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Desirable Skills:
- Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) or Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification.
- Experience with Red Hat Satellite and Red Hat Subscription Management.
- Exposure to disaster recovery planning and execution.
- Experience documenting standard operating procedures and technical processes.
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Red Hat Linux Administrator to lead the migration of our Linux infrastructure from CentOS to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This role requires deep technical expertise in Linux system administration, automation, and troubleshooting, with a focus on ensuring a seamless transition and minimal downtime. The ideal candidate will have hands-on migration experience, strong Scripting abilities, and a commitment to maintaining high system availability, security, and performance.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Plan, execute, and manage the migration of CentOS Servers to RHEL.
- Install, configure, and maintain RHEL systems in both physical and virtualized environments.
- Monitor and tune system performance to ensure optimal availability and reliability.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts to streamline deployments and configurations.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enforce security, compliance, and operational best practices.
- Troubleshoot and resolve OS, networking, and storage-related issues.
- Manage system backups, patching, and upgrades.
- Document migration plans, system configurations, and processes.
- Support and maintain Red Hat tools (eg, Satellite, subscription management).
- Contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing.
Outline Thebes Group:
Thebes Group is a leading UK wide IT infrastructure technology consultancy. We are well-known for our extensive talent pool of highly competent IT professionals and exclusive Academy programmes, which provide a great opportunity to undertake technical training in core disciplines. Thebes work with a number of leading vendors, Government, financial institutions and insurance companies including investment banks, brokers and hedge funds.
Thebes does IT solutions & services differently from most other IT service providers. As an Assured Outcome Provider (AOP) we have spent fifteen years willingly sharing the client's risk with them by focusing on outputs (ie quality service & solutions and ROI) rather than inputs (ie pricelists and headcount). We do this by fitting our skills, solutions & capabilities to needs, augmenting our staff with enthusiastic professionals from our Academy programme and remaining flexible as our clients' needs change.