Lead Application Support Engineer (Linux SQL) London / WFH to £85k

Are you a senior Application Support Engineer with strong technical skills combined with mentoring experience?

You could be progressing your career in a hands-on technical leadership role at a Market leading FinTech that provides a highly functional suite of software products to support post-trade processing for clients including most of the financial institutions across the globe.

What's in it for you:

As a Lead Application Support Engineer you will earn a competitive package:

• Salary to £85k + bonus (c10-15%)
• Private Medical Insurance and Eye Care
• Employee Assistance Programme (including 24/7 GP, mental health support, financial and legal advice)
• 25 days holiday
• 5% pension contribution and Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Hybrid working, only one day a week in London, flexible hours

Your role:

As a Lead Application Support Engineer you will join a small, collaborative team responsible for client support; you'll gain an indepth understanding of the company's suite of products and own the resolution of 2nd and 3rd line support issues. You'll also dive into production issues and client integration tickets, working with the codebase and releasing your own code and system changes into production.

This is a senior, hands-on role with mentoring and technical leadership responsibilities in collaboration with the Team Lead.

WFH Policy:

You can work from home most of the time, meeting up with colleagues once a week in the London, City office. Please not there are some varying shift patterns, earliest start 0730, latest finish 1830 and an on-call requirement one in six weeks.

About you:

• You are a senior Application Support Engineer, happy to coach, mentor and provide technical leadership to a small team (3-4)
• You have a strong knowledge of Linux OS
• You have strong SQL skills including writing queries / commands, MySQL experience would be great
• You're able to script or code with any programming language, Perl or bash would be great
• You have a good understanding of networking technologies
• Ideally you will have experience within a financial services environment
• You're collaborative, with excellent client and customer service skills
• You have achieved a BSc Computer Science degree or similar technical discipline

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