Sky - Senior Linux Engineer at Sky

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Job Description:

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

What you’ll do:

Design and build automated deployment, management and operation of content delivery systems and associated support services, running on a mixture of cloud and bare-metal, used to deliver video content to our subscribers across Europe at web-scale concurrencies.
Commission bare-metal from multiple vendors and VMs on a range of hypervisors using bootstrap automation technologies such as IPMI/iLO/DRAC, pxe, RHEL/Centos kickstart / cloudinit.
Build CI/CD deployment pipelines with Jenkins and champion an “automation first” rollout and maintenance strategy.
Manage configuration, develop templates and automate fleet upgrades of production operating systems and applications using Ansible with associated secrets management.
Develop a Systems Assurance framework with the team, to enable qualification of physical server and cloud based resources for use at scale, using automated FT/NFT where possible.
Ensure effective monitoring, logging and ticketing interfaces of multiple platforms, on and off server. Design, deploy & manage basic/advanced log processing systems, from syslog, ELK stacks to Clickhouse and beyond.

What you’ll bring:

Specialism as a sysadmin, ideally with RHEL/Centos distributions, with experience focussed on, for example: performance tuning, iptables, pinned repo’s, security hardening.
Production familiarity with a range of virtualisation/container technologies using e.g., Terraform, Docker, LXC, Xen, LVM, VMware or Openstack with their Cloud equivalents at GC, AWS or Azure.
Ability to network and secure bare-metal/VM/container systems, ensuring isolation, performance of applications and security considerations.
Knowledge and practical understanding of TCP/IP, including IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP and HTTP.
Experience of production-scale deployment and operation of open-source applications such as, Apache Traffic Server, Envoy, Squid, Varnish, HAProxy, nginx.
A flair for producing clear documentation and diagrams for presentation and the ability to manage configuration, shell-scripts and markdown using git.