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NCC Group
Senior TechOps Engineer
Skills
DockerPHPPythonGitAnsibleLinuxKubernetesELK Stack
1 month ago
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Important information
Contract type:
Permanent
Location:
Manchester, UK
Work mode:
Onsite
Published on:
9 September 2026
What they need
- As a TechOps Engineer, your role is to facilitate the management/extension of the systems and platforms used internally to deliver consultant services to our customers
- This is a technical hands-on role which requires a broad range of technical skills and overlaps between infrastructure/networking/linux
- Utilising automation and infrastructure as code principals you will aid in the development and architecture of both new and existing systems. On occasion, there maybe planned and unplanned out of hours work therefore, flexibility is key
- In this role you will be a key member of a small and dynamic global team based primarily in the UK but also other regions, with opportunities to be exposed to new technologies and methods for ensuring reliable and secure IT operations
- A TechOps Engineer is responsible for the preparation and support of IT operations solutions and services, physical or virtual. They do so according to industry and organisational best practices, standards, service requirements and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) throughout the product life cycle
- To maintain (patch/troubleshoot/document) and monitor physical and virtual network/server/cloud infrastructure environments with a strong focus on security
- Diagnosis and resolution of issues in accordance with published SLA’s and in a customer focused manner
- Lead the design and architectural development of IT systems, collaborating closely with departments and stakeholders to oversee the creation of complex global IT solutions
- Mentor team members, sharing invaluable experience and expertise- Virtualisation (e.g VMWare/KVM/XEN/On Prem Cloud)
- Proficient Linux administration capability (e.g Ubuntu/Debian/RHEL)
- Enterprise Server Hardware experience (Dell/HP)
- Previous Datacenter experience
- Enterprise Monitoring/Logging
- Enterprise Backups (e.g Veeam)
- Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to fix issues
- Networking (Switching/Routing/Firewalling/Proxy/VPN)
- Enterprise Storage (e.g SAN/DAS/NAS/Raid/FDE/SED)
- Automation using Ansible
- Windows Server / Domain Knowledge
- Version Control using Git
- Previous experience working in a TechOps/Infrastructure Engineer role or similar technical IT role
- Demonstrably comfortable working on own initiative and as part of a larger team
- Confident in applying security hardening to various infrastructure components
- Security Mindset (System Hardening/Application Security Tooling)
- Scripting (e.g Bash/Python/PHP/etc)
- Containerisation (e.g Docker/Docker-Compose/Podman/LXC)
- OpenVPN
- IAM (SSO/SAML/OIDC/Privileged Access Management)
- Linux Filesystems (e.g EXT/BTRFS/XFS/ZFS/LVM)
- Secret Storage (e.g Hashicorp Vault)
- RH IDM/FreeIPA
- Encryption (Filesystem/Network)
- CI/CD and build automation
- SSO IDP Providers (e.g Keycloak/auth0/etc)
- ELK / Elastic Stack / Beats
- Kubernetes
- CPU/GPU System Architecture Knowledge
- Working with GPUs in VMs / Containers
- Inference Engine knowledge (e.g VLLM/SGLang)
- SQL (e.g MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres)- We review every application received and will get in touch if your skills and experience match what we’re looking for. If you don’t hear back from us within 10 days, please don’t be too disappointed – we may keep your CV on our database for any future vacancies and we would encourage you to keep an eye on our career opportunities as there may be other suitable roles
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