Senior Support Engineer

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Support Engineer to enhance their critical infrastructure. In this dynamic role, you will be responsible for maintaining and monitoring complex operational systems, ensuring maximum availability, and implementing best practices in DevOps and SRE. You will tackle exciting challenges using technologies like Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes while collaborating with a talented development team. This is a fantastic opportunity for a self-driven individual passionate about delivering impactful solutions in a fast-paced environment. Join this innovative firm and make a real difference in their operations!

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience supporting complex operational systems.
• Experience with Linux server administration and containerization.

Responsibilities

• Maintain critical systems and ensure operational availability.
• Support development team in resolving critical issues.

Skills

Linux

Debugging

Monitoring

Problem-solving

Documentation

Risk Management

Tools

Splunk

ELK

Apache

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS S3

Job description

Job Description

Senior Support Engineer UKIC DV Cleared Linux, Splunk, ELK, Apache, Docker, Kubernetes

As a Senior Support Engineer you play a pivotal role in maintaining the critical infrastructure and software that runs the business. You will be self-driven and organised with a passion for building elegant and stable solutions. You will have the chance to work on a variety of exciting projects with complex challenges within a unique space and you’ll be at the forefront of delivering core solutions that have real world impact.

Work involved:

• Perform hands-on maintenance to ensure critical systems remain operational




• Monitoring systems to ensure maximum availability




• Support the wider development team in working through critical issues remediate them




• Identifying technical risks/opportunities and proactively developing plans to mitigate and realise them




• Maintain accurate documentation




• Implementing DevOps and/or SRE best practices as required on relevant systems

Experience needed:

• Hands on experience of supporting and debugging of complex operational systems including monitoring of logs




• Experience of Linux server administration




• Experience in technologies such as Apache, AWS S3 etc




• Experience managing and patching Java and Python applications




• Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker) and deployment technologies (Kubernetes / OpenShift)

If you are interested, please get in touch and we can schedule a call.