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Lead Systems Administrator: Linux

Our client actively encourages diversity, equality and inclusion within its workforce and welcomes applications from a diverse background, REC Solutions Limited does not discriminate in regards to age, gender, national origin, religion or any other basis.

Lead Systems Administrator: Linux

Our client actively encourages diversity, equality and inclusion within its workforce and welcomes applications from a diverse background, REC Solutions Limited does not discriminate in regards to age, gender, national origin, religion or any other basis.

Do you want to join a well-established growing financial services / FinTech (Financial Technology) company who are forward thinking and working with cutting edge technologies? a fantastic opportunity has arisen for aLead Systems Administrator - Linux to join a friendly collaborative team. Ideally, we seek candidates who have a strong technical background coupled with the ability/experience to lead and manage a team. The successful candidate will be both technically astute and a strong people manager.

Benefits (not exhaustive list):Lead Systems Administrator (Linux)

• Competitive salary
• 25 days annual leave - not including bank holidays
• Can opt to join Private Medical insurance scheme
• Hybrid working
• Flexible working hours
• Company pension
• Group Policies Life Assurance, Income Protection and Critical Illness
• Discretionary bonus
• Electric Car Scheme
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Policy
• Workplace Nursery Scheme
• Length of service holiday entitlement
  
  

• High personal integrity
• Innovative thinking
• Efficient and reliable performance
• Spark
  
  

• The successful candidate will manage both the Linux internal support team as well as a senior sysadmin team of experienced professionals. These teams oversee the entire Linux estate including development, QA and multiple production trading systems including some belonging to third party clients.
• Collaborate with development, networks, ops and product teams on strategic IT initiatives.
• Assist with planning, management and resource allocation of inter-departmental projects alongside the PM team.
• Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, and rapid resolution of system outages or performance degradation.
• Ensure compliance of procedures such as change management, patch management and security and audit processes. Assist in the maintenance of these procedures.
• Support regular security audits and penetration tests, addressing findings and oversee any remediation work.
• Improve system monitoring, alerting, documentation, operating procedures and incident response processes.
• Manage, mentor, plan and coordinate the activities of both teams.
  
  

• Ideally 7+ years Linux system administration experience with at least 3 years in a managerial or team lead role.
• Strong expertise with RHEL-based systems, including installation, ongoing management, monitoring, performance tuning, system security hardening, etc.
• Proven track record of managing geographically distributed teams, including senior engineers and tier-1/2 support staff including on-call and rota scheduling.
• Experience in managing complex IT projects, including system migrations and infrastructure upgrades.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity principles and experience implementing security measures in a regulated environment.
• Ability to coach, mentor, and upskill staff; develop career paths and ensure team resilience.
• Experience undertaking root cause analysis including prevention orientated solution reporting.
• Working experience with deployment tools (e.g. GitLab pipelines) and rollback strategies.
• Proficiency in managing bare-metal servers, virtualization platforms such as VMware, containerised systems as well as familiarity with hybrid cloud environments and DevOPS practices.
• Familiarity with incident / problem management and change control workflows a plus.
• Previous experience with low latency systems or financial experience desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interface with operations desks, application developers, compliance teams, and executive leadership.
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Data Infrastructure and Analytics

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