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Head Resourcing are recruiting for a senior platform engineer for a financial services company. This role is predominantly remote although ideally you will be near one of the hubs in Gosforth or Glasgow for occasional office attendance.
The role pays 39,000 - 49,000 and offers a range of great benefits. The role will require some occasional weekend/evening work.
The core aspect of your role will be to support the management of the Operational Platform, with a focus on the Linux Server Estate. This will involve collaboration with internal customers, partners and external customers to deliver excellent service and ensure our systems are efficient, performant, resilient where emerging technology threats & risks are managed and change to our systems are managed effectively.
The role involves:
- Innovating, supporting and maintaining the companies Linux server estate for Operational Platform.
- Supporting the management of Patching lifecycles, including scheduling, deployment & verification.
- Engineering, validating, implementing and quality assuring technical solutions.
- Supporting projects implementing new infrastructure into the datacentres.
- Supporting root cause analysis and remediation of issues.
- Working closely with others to estimate work, manage domain scope, risks and issues.
- Collaborating with project teams to ensure that change within the environment is managed and controlled effectively.
Experience required:
- Strong sys admin skills and engineering experience of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Satellite (install, Configure, manage)
- Experience of server implementation, upgrades, maintenance, monitoring and automation (Infrastructure as Code) with Ansible, AAP
- VMware (upgrade, manage)
- Understanding of Networking Technologies
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to own, diagnose and resolve platforms issues.
- Understanding of cybersecurity principles, vulnerability management
- Python, Bash, API's and data structures in JSON/YAML or other
Benefits
- Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)? plus the option to buy more.
- Up to five extra paid well-being days per year?.
- 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt.
- Excellent pension, with a minimum employer contribution of 8%
- Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance.
- Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness.
