Our Federal Government client is looking for an experienced Linux Engineer for an initial 12 months contract plus extensions.The Linux Engineer will be responsible for: Run and maintain core IT services, upon which all other IT services are based.Including; data centres, servers, virtualization, operating systems, storage, backup, time, logging, email, domain name resolution, web proxying and security.Securely manage connections to/from the internet and other government networks.Perform daily security monitoring and risk mitigations across the organization's IT environment.Meeting project and BAU requirements.Essential Requirements: Proven Linux Engineering experience Virtualisation (VMware) Block and file storage (Pure Storage) Backup (Cohesity) Log index/search (Splunk) Monitoring (Zabbix, Splunk) DNS (BIND) NTP SMTP (Postfix) Web proxying (Squid and Forcepoint/Websense) RSA SecurID Due to security clearance requirements for this role, candidates must be Australian Citizen and have an active Baseline or NV1 Clearance .For more information or a confidential discussion, please contact Gian on ****** quoting reference 263978 .To apply please click the 'Apply Now' button.#J-18808-Ljbffr