Linux Support Engineer

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

Background

City St George’s, University of London is seeking a Linux Support Engineer to join our Platform Services Team. You’ll help maintain and develop the University’s Linux infrastructure, supporting teaching, research, and professional services. This hybrid role combines remote working with time on campus and in data centres.

Responsibilities

Provide daily support for Linux services, including specialist support for key systems. Ensure availability for teaching, research, and other functions, following up on monitoring alerts and maintaining system security and backups. Assist with planning and carrying out regular maintenance such as patching and code releases. Participate in system monitoring, disaster recovery preparation, and the on-call rota to deliver out-of-hours support when required.

Person Specification

The ideal candidate will have strong experience deploying and managing physical and virtual Linux systems (CentOS, Rocky Linux, Ubuntu) in an enterprise environment. You will understand web technologies and have experience supporting VLEs or large-scale LAMP applications. Solid shell scripting skills are essential, with desirable knowledge of automation (Ansible), monitoring tools (Nagios), and database systems such as MySQL.

Additional Information

Closing date: 09 November 2025 at 11:59pm.

The selection process will involve an interview and an assessment. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

At City St George’s, subject to agreement, relevant Professional Services roles may be undertaken in a hybrid way, involving a mixture of working on campus and at home each week.

Where a hybrid working arrangement can be accommodated, it is expected that colleagues will spend the majority (at least 60%) of their usual working time on campus each week. Specific details will be discussed and agreed with the successful candidate. A hybrid working arrangement will not detract from any comprehensive induction, that will include relevant on-site activities.

Regardless of where colleagues are working, City St George’s, University of London’s premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.

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