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Our client is looking for an experienced operations engineer to join their expanding operations team.
Operations Engineers will improve, maintain and support systems, with the support of the other Operations engineers, the Operations Team Lead, the Server Capture technical lead and other colleagues.
The data capture systems are made up of a combination of open source and bespoke software running on the Linux platform. There is heavy use of automation such as Puppet and Terraform to deliver these capabilities.
Beyond the regular maintenance, operations and support tasks there will be ample opportunities to be involved in the development of automation and systems management. Our client has an out of hours on-call team (additional compensation is made) that you would be asked to join after a suitable settling in period.
Our client employs modern development practices in our workflow, using Git alongside CI/CD, unit testing and open-source coding standards. There are lots of opportunities to work in other areas or technologies and expand your knowledge.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Day to day maintenance of servers and services
Handling support requests from customers and staff
Deployment and scaling of systems
Working alongside engineering
Testing
User experience and other roles
Handling alarms and alerts
Improving monitoring and alerting
Investigating and monitoring performance
Adhering to company policies and procedures with respect to security quality and health and safety
Person Specification
Required Skills
Linux – CentOS/Alma preferred
The ability to solve problems and find out or source information
Following established processes
Good communication skills
Python or other scripting languages
Experience in running servers at scale
Experience with VPS and Dedicated server hosting companies worldwide
Puppet, Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
Administrative knowledge of common business tools such as Atlassian’s suite, Microsoft 365 etc
Experience with AWS Cloudwatch, PagerDuty or other monitoring tools
Windows desktop management / InTune MDM
Benefits
Work in a market leading technology company that helps research and marketing professionals achieve unique insights into the mobile and digital lives of consumers.
Our client does everything they can to support their people so that they can be themselves and realise their potential. They love people who are hungry for learning and achievement!
Core Benefits
25 days paid holiday plus bank holidays
Purchase/sale of up to 5 leave days pa – after 2 years’ service.
Life insurance
Workplace pension with employer contribution
Performance based bonus scheme
Informal dress code
Cycle to work scheme
Branded company merchandise
New company laptop
One-to-one learning and development coaching sessions
Support and budget available for training programmes
‘Giving back’ to charities
Hybrid Working
Work from home and in the office
Working from home equipment provided I.e. desk, screen and chair
Company Colleague £100 pa to spend on additional working from home items
Office days- lunch provided for team meetings, collaborations and business needs
Flexibility offered on start and end times depending on personal circumstances.
Regular virtual meetings (team and company) – via telephone and video
