Senior Linux/Perl Engineer

6 days ago

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia luvo Talent Full time $120,000 - $180,000 per year
  • Daily rate, 6 month contract
  • Join a busy team for a global player
  • Immediate role

We're on the lookout for a
Senior Linux/Perl Engineer
to join an enterprise environment supporting mission-critical
ISE applications
. You'll be diving into
legacy Perl code
, adding new features, improving performance, and automating infrastructure operations — all while ensuring system stability and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

  • Maintain and extend existing Perl modules and legacy codebases
  • Build custom monitoring and alerting scripts for network events
  • Troubleshoot and optimise Linux systems and application performance
  • Implement new features and automation in Perl, Python, and Bash
  • Manage network configurations (firewalls, routing, VLANs, NAT, Virtual IPs)
  • Administer and tune MySQL/PostgreSQL databases, including Galera Clusters
  • Ensure replication integrity, failover, and recovery procedures
  • Support load balancing and containerisation (HAProxy, NGINX, Docker)
  • Collaborate with operations and security teams to maintain uptime and compliance

Skills & Experience
Essential:

  • Expert in Perl - debugging, refactoring, and feature development
  • Strong Linux administration skills
  • Sound knowledge of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, firewalls, VLANs, routing)
  • Experience with Ansible or other configuration management tools
  • Solid database administration and optimisation experience (MySQL/Postgres)
  • Exposure to Galera Cluster and replication management
  • Scripting experience with Python and Bash
  • Experience with Docker, HAProxy, or NGINX

Desirable:

  • Experience setting up DNS services
  • Knowledge of GitLab CI/CD pipelines
  • Monitoring & alerting tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios)
  • Workflow automation (Apache Airflow)
  • Understanding of security best practices and vulnerability scanning

You'll Succeed If You:
Thrive in a technically challenging, fast-moving environment

Enjoy working end-to-end across infrastructure, application, and network layers

Can balance legacy system management with modern automation practices

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