What I'll be doing - your accountabilities You'll be helping our customers to develop and deploy new technical solutions following industry best practices.You will be managing Linux servers and network infrastructure.
* Understand customer problems and work on technical solutions
* Investigate and recommend new toolsets and processes to help develop and deploy our software
* Develop metrics to monitor and help diagnose live issues
* Automate time consuming and repetitive processes
* Share knowledge both within the team and with our Special Interest Groups
* Influence customer decision making on technical areas
* Take ownership of planning, developing and delivering project areas
Skills required for the job
Technical Skills:
* Makes technical decisions which influence the success of projects and team objectives
* Collaborate with customers to understand complex technical problems
* Design and develop bespoke solutions
* Investigate, analyse and recommened existing software products to meet our requirements
* Participate in the code review process
* Create test suites to verify code correctness
* Participates in external activities related to own specialism, e.g. attending technical conferences, knowledge sharing
Communication:
* Explain and present technical areas back to the team & customers as part of knowledge sharing sessions
* Produce technical documentation
Additional:
* Be able to quickly upskill on new technologies through a combination of self learning and external courses
* Member of a professional body appropriate to area of specialism.
* Security Clearance: A DV level of National Security Vetting will be required for this role. You will have existing clearence or be eligible for security clearence.
Experience you would be expected to have MANDATORY experience:
* Qualified to degree level or with experience of technical delivery
* Ability to take substantial personal responsibility, ownership and autonomy
* Server orchestration tools (Ansible, Puppet, Foreman)
* Linux system administration
* VMware (ESXi / VSphere)
* Network switch administration (Cisco / Arista)
* System metrics and monitoring (eg Splunk, Elastic stack, Prometheus, Grafana, CheckMK, Nagios)
* Scripting (Bash, Python)
* Source code management tools (Git, SVN)
DESIRABLE experience:
* Cloud services such as AWS, Azure or GCP
* Worked in agile development teams
* Continuous Integration / Continuous Development pipelines experience
* Containerised deployment (Docker, Kuberneties)
Connected leaders behaviours
* Customer - Solution focused achiever
* Our Organisation - Collaborative partner
* People - Team Coach
Key decisions
Has technical authority for decision making in their own project area, in collaboration with the following stakeholders:
* Technical area lead
* Customers
* Project/Delivery Manager
