Tusker - System Engineer - Watford
- SALARY: £49788-£60852
- LOCATION(S): Watford
- HOURS: Full-time
- WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Watford site. During the training period we ask new starters to be in the office 5 days a week until they are competent and fully trained.
About this Opportunity
The focus of this role will be to support and enhance the pre-production and production web infrastructure to help to define Tusker's future infrastructure to ensure security, resiliency and scalability so Tusker's infrastructure facilitates the growth of the business.Work closely with the Tusker development team to assist in the delivery of projects by getting involved with and lead infrastructure improvement projects, such as SIEM, PAM and infrastructure as code and develop, maintain and adhere to installation, configuration and change management procedures and policies.
About us
We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
We're an award-winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009. We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future.We're committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too. This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.
Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement. Offering all fuel types, prices and over 1000 cars to choose from all by leading manufacturers.Please visit for more information www.tuskerdirect.com
What you'll need- Work with members of the business at all levels to formulate technical solutions to meet business needs. Communicate effectively with stakeholders and build relationships with users around the business, as well third-parties to ensure the smooth operation of Tusker's infrastructure.
- Research and recommend innovative and open minded approaches for systems engineering tasks.
- Track all work through the Tusker ticketing system.
- Adhere to and help define Tusker's procedures to ensure quality, compliance and security. Create and update infrastructure documentation.
- Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, resources, systems, services and key processes including the recovery of systems and services from hardware or software failures/errors.
- Application of patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities. Installation of new IT equipment (servers, services, settings, storage, policies, etc.)
- Linux (Ubuntu and Debian preferred)
- AWS (EC2 and RDS)
- VMware
- Docker
- Ansible
- Terraform
- Apache
- NGINX
- Experience with monitoring tools is necessary
About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.
We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.
We'd love to hear from you.