Senior Linux Team Lead – Crawley (On-site) 

£70,000-£80,000

We are partnering with a highly successful technology-driven organisation seeking an experienced Senior Linux Team Lead to join their Infrastructure & Platform Services team. This is an excellent opportunity for a hands-on technical leader with a strong Linux background and experience managing high-performance, mission-critical environments. The successful candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership skills, driving operational excellence while mentoring and developing a team of talented engineers.

Working closely with senior technical and business stakeholders, you will play a key role in shaping the future direction of the organisation’s Linux, Cloud and Infrastructure platforms, whilst helping drive the adoption of modern DevOps and Agile practices.

The Role

As the Senior Linux Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a team of infrastructure engineers supporting a large-scale Linux-based environment. You will provide technical leadership, oversee operational delivery, and help modernise infrastructure through automation, DevOps methodologies and continuous improvement initiatives. This position offers a blend of people leadership, technical strategy and hands-on involvement across Linux systems, cloud platforms, automation tooling and high-availability infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor and develop a team of Linux and Infrastructure Engineers.

• Set clear objectives, coach team members and support professional development.

• Provide technical leadership across Linux infrastructure, automation and cloud services.

• Drive the adoption of Agile and DevOps best practices.

• Ensure platform stability, availability, performance and security.

• Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical issues and provide third-line support.

• Identify opportunities for automation and operational efficiencies.

• Work closely with business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Define and improve operational processes, standards and tooling.

Skills & Experience Required

• Proven experience leading and developing technical infrastructure teams.

• Strong Linux systems administration experience within enterprise-scale environments.

• RHEL

• Debian

• Ansible

• Puppet

• FAI

• Zabbix

• ITIL Foundation certification or equivalent operational experience.

• Ability to balance strategic leadership with hands-on technical responsibilities.

• Experience managing projects, priorities and delivery deadlines.

Desirable

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles and modern infrastructure practices.

• Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, CI/CD pipelines

• Scripting and infrastructure automation experience.

• Cloud platform/Virtualisation technologies experience.

• Hardware infrastructure knowledge including storage, compute and GPU platforms.

• Experience working within High Performance Computing (HPC) environments.

Benefits 

• Performance-related bonus scheme.

• Generous annual leave allowance with holiday purchase options.

• Enhanced employer pension contributions.

• Private medical and dental options.

• Wellbeing and mental health support programmes.

• Cycle to Work scheme.

• Discount schemes - gym membership, restaurants, cinema tickets

• On-site gym facilities 

If you are a Senior Linux Engineer, Linux Team Lead, Infrastructure Team Leader or Platform Operations Manager looking to take ownership of a complex enterprise environment while leading and developing a skilled technical team, we'd love to hear from you.