Senior Linux Engineer

The Implementations Engineer will support the Cloud Pre-Sales and Sales teams in responding the bids and opportunities and will be primarily responsible for the development and support of complex technical solutions. The role will at times be customer facing and be the focal point for detailed technical discussions with the customer. As such the candidate will need to demonstrate excellent presentation and written skills and be able to communicate at both technical and non-technical levels within the business and with customers.

The ideal candidate should have a broad range of hands-on technical skills with strong design and implementation skills around the LAMP stack and be able to clearly demonstrate experience of delivering solution that involve migrating customers from traditional infrastructure to cloud environments.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES.

- Technical requirements capture
- Presentation of technical solutions to customers
- Design, build, test and document proof of concepts, reference and production solutions to meet the technical, commercial and operational needs of customers
- Research and understand emerging technologies and develop appropriate use cases that may be applied to customer opportunities.
- Ensure technical solutions are robust, efficient and meet the technical and commercial requirements of the business
- Design and delivery of effective migration and implementation strategies
- Work with the Sales, Presales, Design and Delivery in support of customer opportunities

QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

- Min 2-3 years relevant industry experience
- Experience of  enterprise architecture
- Experience building and operating online services and fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Technical knowledge of IT & networks, architecture, design and management as it relates to the managed IT provider industry.

EXPERIENCE WORKING IN A NUMBER OF THE FOLLOWING AREAS:- - Enterprise IT Solutions Design and Implementation
- Enterprise Linux
- redhat
- SUSE
- PHP
- MySQL
- Apache
- Xen Apps and VDI
- Experience of coding, Scripting or application development. (Puppet, Chef, Cloud formation)