NOC Engineer

NOC Engineer
Southampton, Hybrid
£45,000, 26 days holiday, 5% Pension, Death in Service

Here you'll expand on you Linux skills within an environment of up to 80 Linux Servers, that are due to migrate to Red Hat shortly.

With either commercial experience of Linux Systems Administrator or general IT Support experience, while experimenting with Linux at home, perhaps on Raspberry Pi, SBC's or Breadboard projects at home.

You will have support and training to develop these skills (amongst others) and gain Red Hat or other Linux qualifications.

A team of 8 NOC Engineers implement, monitor and support the IT infrastructure and Service Delivery of an international company helping to reduce energy waste and cost.

Having placed most of the NOC team here over the years we can say with confidence that people stay due the variety of work and the chance to progress their expertise in areas that interest them, leading to the ability to make recommendations to the business on utilising the last technology they have been learning about.

The role itself…

There will project work to proactively work on IT upgrades, schedule penetration testing and more.

This team operate a revolving 24/7 shift pattern working two 12-hour shifts and three 6-hour shifts a week, with any out of hours shifts being worked from home.

With 4 data centres located around the South you'll make occasional visits as part of the ongoing support and providing a reliable service.

Working to strict Information Security Management best practices you'll validate the compliance and delivery of services.

Using the latest tools, you'll proactively monitor uptime of IT Systems, servers and services and dealing with outages appropriately.

Provide management reports around KPI's for service delivery.

Support the Cisco and Palo Alto network infrastructure.

You will need..

Experience supporting data centre environments with any of the following qualifications being a real bonus:
Microsoft - MCSE, MCSA / VMWare - VCP / Cisco - CCNA/CCNP / CompTIA Network+ / Palo Alto - PCNSE / Wireshark WCNA

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