System Engineer About Us: Founded and continuously led by inventor and entrepreneur Tony Aquila, Solera is a globally recognized leader in digital technologies for the automotive, home ownership and digital identity industries. It all started with a simple idea and some innovative thinking. While sweeping floors in his uncle's auto body shop as a kid, Aquila saw the inefficiencies of the dated automotive aftermarket process and knew there had to be a more efficient and accurate way. To his surprise, there wasn't. Combining his passion for cars and technology, Aquila created that better way with Solera. With a goal of bringing together key solutions that help connect the insurance company, repair shop, parts industry, automotive manufacturers, and drivers, Solera offers an easier and more effective auto repair process. Today, Aquila still lives out that original idea through aggressive and strategic leadership while acquiring companies around the world, validating his vision, and turning his dream into a reality, all while transforming the industry as employs more than 6,700 people around the world and is active in over nearly 90 countries. The man who literally started a business in a garage now oversees an organization with $1.4 billion in annual revenue, performing over 300 million digital transactions annually for more than 235,000 customers. Position: System Engineer Location: Harrogate, UK Job type: Full Time, Permanent Salary: £Competitive About the role: We're on the hunt for a System Engineer, who is a technically skilled individual with a background in open source and a focus on continuous improvement, application resilience and new technologies, to join our Harrogate Data Centre. At Solera, we believe in providing clarity and focus to what our volunteers are responsible for -- their mission. The 80's, as we call them at Solera, are the employee's priorities associated with their role or mission. Responsibilities: * Responsible to work with project management to ensure the timely delivery of infrastructure and applications to pre-defined project timescales. * Responsible to champion the use of new technologies to further improve operational activities and processes through automation and the development of infrastructure as code. * Responsible to focus on continuous improvement, application resilience \& new technologies. * Ensure that all deployed applications adhere to RTO / RPO requirements agreed with relevant business units. * Produce operational support documentation \& knowledge base. * Work with the production support function to complete operational acceptance of new systems, transferring first-line support responsibilities to 24/7 support teams. * Drive the use of SCM tools and participate in the design, implementation and day-to-day support of mission critical automation pipelines. * Successfully integrate into the Global IT Organisation, embracing the culture and Solera Way. * Qualify for the mission by learning product suites, tools and Solera architectural standards. * Effectively lead the mission to integrate new systems into Solera IT infrastructure. * Create an accretive roadmap to standardise existing and future IT integration projects. About you: * Proven experience of working in an IT service operations team. * Operating System: Linux installation, administration \& tuning. * Scripting: Python, Ruby, Shell, PowerShell. * Backup Technologies: NetBackup, Veeam. * Storage \& SAN Technologies: NetApp, 3PAR. * Automation Technologies: Puppet, Katello, Ansible. * Virtualisation: VMware, OpenStack. * Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Concourse. * Monitoring Tools: Nagios, OPSview, Icinga. * Knowledge of data centre architecture. * Project Management of implementation of new systems \& hardware. * Creation of system architecture design and support documentation. * Experience of working in a multiplatform IT environment. * Willing, ready and able to learn and execute the Solera Way. * Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to establish and maintain collaborative work relationships at all levels. * Ability to prioritise, delegate and deliver tasks in a pressurized high output focused environment. * Willingness to identify, implement and drive improvements. * Attention to detail. * Enthusiasm for learning new technologies. * Flexibility with regards to working outside normal business hours as required. Ref: 89028