Position: Lead Operations Engineer
Location: Central London
Salary: c.35-45k Basic + Benefits

CLIENT:
Our client is the first and largest global provider of SaaS Web Security, ensuring a safe and productive Internet environment for organisations. Our client’s solutions keep viruses and spyware off corporate networks and allow organisations to control and secure the use of the Web and instant messaging.

They are winning numerous technology awards, against much larger competitors, due to their unique, cutting edge technology, and have just moved to new offices to continue their expansion.

ROLE:
Fantastic opportunity for an experienced Lead Operations Engineer / Senior Systems Engineer with strong Linux System skills to join a global technology leader.

Due to continuing success, a world leader in Web Security is looking to recruit an experienced, highly technical individual with strong Linux (Redhat/CentOS) systems experience as well as experience leading small Operations engineering teams.

You will be responsible for leading the Operations Engineering team in incident & problem management to comply with SLA’s. You will also be responsible Release & Change Management.

You may have previous experience in the following types of roles: Operations Engineer, Systems Engineer, Linux Systems Engineer, Unix Systems Engineer, Linux Network Engineer, etc

EXPERIENCE:
a) Minimum of 5 years experience within the technology sector.
b) Ability to lead a team of Escalation Engineers.
c) Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
d) The ability to establish and maintain confidence with ownership of issues.

SKILLS:
a) Excellent knowledge, and experience, with RedHat or CentOS Linux.
b) Experience in a Senior / Team Lead role.
c) Good knowledge of Apache and Tomcat.
d) Good knowledge of TCP/IP and networking in general.
e) Bash scripting skills.
f) Packet analysis experience.
g) Desirable – RHCE certification.

This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWebRecruitment, the UK’s leading Flat Fee Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWebRecruitment are those of an employment agency. Ref: EWR

No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of age, and we confirm that we will gladly accept applications from persons of any age for this role.