Linux Systems Administrator Technical Manager/Team Lead

City based Financial Fintech

WFH/Office blend

£90-105K plus package

Our client (a Leading Financial Fintech) is seeking an experienced and highly capable Linux Systems Administrator Technical Manager/Team Lead to join our team. This is a hands-on leadership role ideal for someone with a strong technical foundation in Linux systems administration and a experience managing or leading teams or perhaps an individual ready to make the move to Team Leading.

In this role, you will oversee the daily operations of a mission-critical Linux infrastructure, leading a team of both senior-level administrators and support desk staff. You will play a pivotal role in ensuring system reliability, performance, and scalability while fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture.

A number of years Linux systems administration experience with some managerial or team lead role exposure

Strong expertise with RHEL-based systems, including installation, ongoing management, monitoring, performance tuning, system security hardening, etc.

You will be managing teams, including senior engineers and tier-1/2 support staff including on-call and rota scheduling.

Experience in managing complex IT projects, including system migrations and infrastructure upgrades.

The successful candidate will manage both the Linux internal support team as well as a senior sysadmin team of experienced professionals. These teams oversee the entire Linux estate including development, QA and multiple production trading systems including some belonging to third party clients.

Collaborate with development, networks, ops and product teams on strategic IT initiatives.

Assist with planning, management and resource allocation of inter-departmental projects alongside the PM team.

Oversee incident management, root cause analysis, and rapid resolution of system outages or performance degradation.

Improve system monitoring, alerting, documentation, operating procedures and incident response processes.

Previous experience with low latency systems or financial experience desirable but not essential

Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to interface with operations desks, application developers, compliance teams, and executive leadership.