Head of Support – Storage, Archiving, Engineering, Management, Technology, GPFS, Linux

Job title : Head of Support – Storage, Archiving, Engineering, Management, Technology, GPFS, Linux
Location : High Wycombe
Job type : Permanent
Salary : £80000 - £100000 per annum
Sector : Digital & Media
Contact : Brigita Stasyte
Call : 02072809910
Email : email Brigita
Reference : BHJOB6067_20075
Head of Support – Storage, Archiving, Engineering, Management, Technology, GPFS, Linux – Buckinghamshire/Hybrid – Permanent – up to £100,000 base + benefits + package

My client , a leading Storage and Archiving provider, are seeking a Head of Support to join their Buckinghamshire office on a permanent basis. You will be responsible for the management and leadership of circa 15 technical support personnel, ensuring the 24/7 function is running smoothly.

You will be tasked with providing technical support and perspective to your team, ensuring delivery across their media and academia clientele is consistent. Leading and mentoring global support teams, creating goals and visions for the team to achieve and being the main point of contact for teams to escalate issues for resolution. In line with this, you will also partake in the creation of Major Incident Management process, creating best practices on a global scale and reporting on team performance to executive level management.

Key skills:
  • Previous experience as an Engineer and extensive background in managing global support teams within the Media sector.
  • Ability to manage and lead best practices, creating outstanding team performance to report back to executive level stakeholders.
  • Strong understanding of storage and archiving hardware, specifically GPFS or other Parallel Filling Systems
  • Good knowledge of Linux and Unix systems, ability to use it on a daily basis
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills are a must
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated and charismatic individual to join an expanding team and provide leadership to a global support team. 

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