IT Lead Engineer - Linux, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Devops - Croydon

A really interesting role leading a team of 3^rd line engineers delivering support to critical infrastructure applications. Leading the transition of applications from the third party application development teams into support by 2nd & 3rd line teams. A talented team leader with the ability to communicate outwards and upwards along with strong technical understanding.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the transition of applications from the third party application development teams into support by 2nd & 3rd line teams;
• Have strong stakeholder management and communication skills, and an ability to influence senior stakeholders in order to lead and achieve delivery of a comprehensive application management service;
• Possess a strong ability to innovate and improve the service support capability/tools/approach in order to move the support solution to a pro-active and automated, alert-based approach;
• Provide technical assurance for all change requests and be the escalation for out-of-hour emergency changes;
• Have experience creating and presenting application performance metrics to relevant interested parties;
• Plan workloads and tasks for engineers in your support team appropriately;

Strong experience with the following technologies and support tools including:

• Linux OS
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins

The role will be based in Croydon 4 days per week (out of hours on-call requirement). In return a salary of up to £80k is on offer with good access to training and continuing your professional development.

For more information please feel free to get in touch via LinkedIn -/ mark-azure-recruitment or by email - Mark (dot) Blackwood (at) networkerstechnology (dot) com or give me a call - the number listed in the advert is my direct dial.

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