Operations Engineer

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

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
Desirable 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