Who are we?
Love2shop (https://www.love2shop.co.uk) is a business bringing vitality to the world of reward and recognition, helping people to celebrate the moments that matter most – at home, in work, at play, or anywhere at all, really.
We do that by helping people to offer the gift of choice. With an incredible range of gift cards and vouchers, Love2shop lets lucky recipients open the door to hundreds of top high street brands and retailers – and go spending! They can do that in-store or online.
Sometimes we work in the consumer market, and sometimes we are all about business-to-business and insight data tells us that over 60% of the UK population recognises the Love2shop brand.
This year, Love2shop has been officially recognised as one of the UK’s Best Places to Work by Great Places to Work. This means that we join other incredible brands acknowledged as UK companies which create warm, welcoming cultures where employees are looked after and given good opportunities to thrive and succeed.
We’ve been around for more than 55 years so you could say we really know our onions! But we’re also forward-thinking and progressive having recently been acquired by UK-based company, PayPoint, so there are many exciting developments to look forward to.
And this is where you might feel your eyebrow twitching? Because we’ve got our recruitment radar tuned in for a new team member – someone to help us build our future vision for Love2shop.
We would love you – no pun intended – to be part of our Love2shop journey.
As a disability-confident committed company, we have a passion for championing equality. We welcome all colleagues into a work environment where success is attainable for everyone, regardless of disability, age, race, religion, gender identity, or sexual orientation. We are committed to ensuring that everyone has equal access to growth and opportunities in our workplace.
If you love people and want to belong to a team that champions good, strong values, you’ll thrive in Love2shop. So, what’s holding you back? Send us your CV and covering letter today and leave the rest to us!
Does this sound like you?
Are you a Linux Engineer who wants a new challenge with hybrid working? If you enjoy working with likeminded colleagues to ensure effective end to end service delivery, then please keep reading…..
If you are successful you will be required to contribute to the architecture, design, development and migration to approved cloud-based solution, alongside ensuring that the legacy infrastructure is still maintained.
About the Role:
* Architect, design, manage and maintain the Group’s Linux infrastructure.
* Work with colleagues to maintain agreed levels of service covering performance, high availability and DR. In particular, working with our Applications Engineering teams, to ensure a close alignment between infrastructure and applications.
* Work closely with key stakeholders, including Information Security, to deliver and maintain a secure, compliant solution.
* Operate as a technical specialist and handle or oversee resolution of 3rd / 4th line tickets.
* Manage or support incidents.
* Work with key stakeholders to develop, and demonstrate, a good understanding of business needs as relates to our Linux estate.
* Horizon-scan. Maintain knowledge of good and leading practice and emerging trends in Linux.
* Seek to identify opportunities for improvement. Lead on, or contribute to, the delivery of specific improvements as agreed with IT Service Management.
* Capture and manage knowledge relating to area of responsibility, ensuring that policies, processes and procedures are documented and kept up to date.
* Linux architecture, design and configuration covering, hardware, devices and software.
* Monitoring: develop monitoring routines, perform or oversee routine checks, report, escalate and agree remedial activity required. Oversee or perform the completion of remedial activities.
* Lead development of, and reporting against, performance dashboard, working closely with other technical leads to ensure an up to date, accurate view of end to end technical performance.
* Participate in the defined on-call support process, including 24*7 coverage as required.
Team and Culture:
* Promote a culture built around our Trademark Behaviours.
* Role model inclusive behaviour at all times.
* Be an active member of your community. Lead initiatives and proactively integrate with recognised industry bodies.
* Strong communicator who feels at ease to actively challenge estimates and solutions. Is at ease in providing personal and technical feedback to others.
* Provide clear and concise escalation to Project Managers and Service Leads. Can proactively identify project risk and present options and recommendations to mitigate those risks.
* Be an advocate for change in Love2Shop and for your team.
Essential skills required:
* You will have a strong experience using on UNIX/Linux system administration.
* You must have experience with handling online environments with med-large (up to 1 million) user base and high numbers of active users.
* You must have firm understanding of Linux internals and experience in the design, implementation and maintenance of UNIX/Linux based infrastructures.
* You should possess good programming skills in scripting languages like Perl/Shell/Python.
* You have previous experience using: Linux, Red Hat Linux, Storage skills desirable.
* You have good knowledge of: Operating System support Linux, and Linux builds.
* You can work with Application Server Support (Websphere, Java, TOMCAT).
* You have previous exposure to Network Storage and SAN.
* You are comfortable: Shell scripting, SQL, Unix, MySQL.
* You have some knowledge / experience in Ansible.
Desirable:
* You have knowledge of Windows systems administration - the environment is mixed so this would be a bonus.
* You have previous experience in training and coaching individuals.
* You have good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present technical details to a non-technical audience.
* You have problem solving and prioritisation skills.
* You have the ability to work with a structured and methodical approach, combined with an enquiring mind.
* You are self-starter who delivers high quality work and can adapt to new challenges, either on their own or as part of a team.
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