Engineering Tech Lead; RedHat Linux Administration

Overview

We have an immediate opening for an Engineering Tech Lead (Red Hat Linux Administration) with over 10 years of experience at Synechron, based in Sheffield and London, UK.

• Job Role
  :
  Engineering Tech Lead (Red Hat Linux Administration)
• Experience
  : 10+ yrs
• Hiring Location
  :
  Sheffield, London, UK

Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering.

Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron Fin Labs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and Service Now, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or Linked In community.

Synechron:
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Synechron is an innovative global consulting firm delivering industry-leading digital solutions to transform and empower businesses.

Synechron’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) program, Same Difference, was developed because we believe in a culture of listening, respect, and opportunity.

We each bring unique backgrounds, thoughts, talents, and experiences with us to work every day, and we know that by embracing them, we are creating an even greater Synechron. The best way to build a strong team is to value individual differences. So, it doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you’ve had to do to get here – if you have the skills, enthusiasm, and drive to make your mark, we’ll support you like we support each other.

Choose a career with us and let’s pursue innovation, together.

• AAP/Ansible Developer
• Red Fish for managing physical hardware
• Golang, Python, Bash
• Terraform

We are seeking a skilled Open Shift Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our Open Shift-based Virtual/container platforms and services with a focus on automation. Work and collaborate across teams, such as Applications, Hardware, and Network. Develop secure service architecture using cloud-native technologies Develop systems, primarily in Shell scripting, YAML, Ruby, Python and Go language, to prevent outages through automatic scanning and remediation Establish and enforce SRE best practices through platform constraints and high-fidelity system modeling Participate in an on-call rotation.

• Hands-on experience with Open Shift virtualization and Kubernetes administration.
• Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains Experience managing a production service with Red Hat, Windows and ESXi.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting & Observability tools (e.g., Otel, Prometheus, Grafana, Slunk etc.).
• Proficiency in scripting languages Python, Shell, Go Lang, Terraform etc.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Git Lab CI).
• Understanding of containerization (Docker) and microservices architecture.
• Ansible – Configuration Management and Deployment.
• Good problem-solving and communication skills.

• Has experience and affinity to improve team performance
• Mindsets and Behaviors/Self-mastery
• Proven experience in Compute, Open Shift, Kubernetes, Hypervisors, Storage, Windows, Networks and Linux
• Work with industry groups and vendors outside of Client to establish and maintain Client’s involvement and influence.
• Accountability for the control and compliance of the engineering process.
• Promote innovation and adoption of cutting-edge specialist technologies and practices with the domain.
• Promote development of engineers through coaching, and mentoring.
• Consult as required in other areas to assist and provide a different perspective to programmed or projects that require it.