Vacancy description

Senior Linux & Python Infrastructure Engineer in Glasgow, United Kingdom

Hays Technology

  • On-siteWork from the office
  • ContractFixed-term or freelance

£550 per day

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Salary: £? - ? per year Requirements:

  • Strong Linux engineering and administration experience
  • Excellent Python development skills
  • Infrastructure integration and troubleshooting experience
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
  • Experience with security remediation and system hardening
  • Experience working in complex enterprise environments
  • Desirable: Perl experience
  • Desirable: SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NFS, or object storage experience
  • Desirable: Ansible, SaltStack, or similar Infrastructure-as-Code tooling
  • Desirable: VMware or other virtualisation technologies
  • Desirable: Kubernetes, OpenShift, or Docker experience
  • Desirable: Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud experience
  • Desirable: Vulnerability management and security tooling experience
  • Desirable: Scale-out storage and high-availability solutions experience
Responsibilities:
  • We need you to support the development, integration, and maintenance of large-scale enterprise infrastructure platforms.
  • You will contribute to infrastructure engineering, automation, security remediation, and storage technology work.
Technologies:
  • AWS
  • Ansible
  • Azure
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • Docker
  • Support
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • NFS
  • OpenShift
  • Perl
  • Python
  • Security
  • VMware
  • DevOps

More:

We are recruiting a Senior Linux & Python Infrastructure Engineer for a 6-month contract based in Glasgow, with 3 days onsite. The rate is up to £550 per day, inside IR35. The role is being recruited through Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited, acting as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business for temporary workers. Applying is subject to the agencys terms, privacy policy, and disclaimers.

last updated 44 week of 2026

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