Operations Engineers

My client is looking for a Operations Engineer to join the operations team to provide support on our data capture systems running for our customer projects as well as internal IT systems.

Operations Engineers will improve, maintain and support these 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.

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 and Testing

testing

user experience and other roles

• Handling alarms and alerts

• Improving monitoring and alerting

• Investigating and monitoring performance

About You: Here’s what we’re looking for:

• Linux - CentOS/Alma preferred

• The ability to solve problems and find out or source information.

• Following established processes

• Good communication skills

Preferred:

• 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