Engineering Tech Lead (RedHat Linux Administration)

Greetings,

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 (RedHat Linux Administration)
• Experience: 10+ yrs
• Hiring Location: Sheffield, London, UK

About Company:

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 FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

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

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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.

Job Descriptions:

Important Skills:

• RedHat Linux Administration
• AAP/Ansible Developer
• Openshift Virtualization Administration (KVM, libvirtd, kubevirt)
• Openshift API Development (Operator development)

Primary job responsibilities:

We are seeking a skilled OpenShift Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our OpenShift-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.

Required skills:

• Hands-on experience with OpenShift virtualization and Kubernetes administration.
• Understanding of distributed systems and common distributed system failure domains Experience managing a production service with RedHat, Windows and ESXi.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and networking.

Soft Skills:

• Has experience and affinity to improve team performance
• Active listening skills
• Mindsets and Behaviors/Self-mastery
• Proven experience in Compute, OpenShift, 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.