Technical Operations Team Leader

Job Description

An experienced Technical Operations Team Leader is needed to join the team at this leading IT Services and Consultancy company based in Hessle, England.They create high-quality and entertaining online real money games for the global online casino industry, as well as developing some fantastic software and product solutions to a fabulous range of customers in the UK gaming and hospitality sectors.They are based in Hessle, East Yorkshire, but their team is made up of talent from many parts of the UK (and, as a wider group, many parts of Europe).If you are an amazing technical operations team lead that likes to make a difference, feel valued and be part of a growing team of talented people, then please do not hesitate to apply!About the CompanyThey are a 27 years old company. They have a small, fun, but growing team of people that like making a difference, are not afraid to take on new challenges, and care passionately about their people and their customers.They are proud to be part of Air Dice Group, headquartered in Helsinki Finland,About the RoleThey are totally flexible on working arrangements; they measure the quality of outputs and delivery, not the location and number of hours worked.They are looking for a team lead to support and manage their technical operations team, to keep the servers and services secured and up and running, and to provide tech support to their business customers.Key Responsibilities:

• Acquire and manage servers and such hardware, set up networking and virtualisation
• Deploy, monitor and manage their gaming-related applications and services
• Deploy and administrate their internal IT systems (email, git, Jira, Nextcloud, Mattermost etc.)
• Provide the technical support required by their business customers (external and internal) for those applications and services
• Perform security and backup-related tasks, including disaster response and recovery
• Automate all of the above, and make life better!

Desirable Nontechnical Skills:

• Experience in leading technical projects and teams
• Experience in multi-site working environments
• Excellent communication skills, both in person and in remote
• A can do will deliver mindset and attitude
• Great organisational and communication skills
• Inquisitive nature, driving lifelong learning

Desirable Technical Skills:

• Management of proprietary production systems, relational databases along with both Microsoft Server and Linux servers
• Information security best practices
• Experience in networking, network technologies and services
• Experience in automation, integrations, virtualisation
• Eager to coordinate the development of the above
• Database Replication and Clustering
• Awareness of ISO 27001
• Ubiquiti Network and Wi-Fi Solutions
• Microsoft Licensing Implementation, including S.P.L.A.
• Ansible
• Apache web server
• Apache Tomcat application server
• Linux servers and networking
• Virtualisation technology including: LXD, LXC and HYPER-V
• ZFS
• Databases including Postgres, Microsoft SQL and MySql
• Microsoft Server 2012 to 2019 Operating Systems
• Microsoft Client Operating Systems from Windows 7 to Windows 10
• Network Infrastructure: DNS, DHCP, File Shares
• Backup and Recovery

Sounds interesting Click the APPLY button to send your CV for immediate consideration.Candidates with previous job titles and experience including; IT Implementation Consultant, IT Project Manager, Technical Project Manager, IT Manager, Technical Operations Manager, IT Operations Manager may also be considered.IND123