System Operations Engineer

At Radius, we’ve been helping businesses grow for over 35 years.

From our origins as a fuel card provider, we’ve evolved into a global business services provider operating in 19 countries across five continents. Our mission is to help companies of all sizes adapt to change and seize new opportunities.

We’re proud to offer a one-stop solution for fleet and connectivity services, tailored to meet the needs of both SMEs and enterprise-level organisations.

Now, we’re looking for a talented System Operations Engineer to help us deliver the IT infrastructure that powers our global operations.

Ready to take your infrastructure expertise to the next level?

As a System Operations Engineer, you’ll play a key role in supporting and maintaining our Linux and AWS environments.

Reporting into our Head of Infrastructure, you’ll work closely with colleagues in our IT Infrastructure and Software Development teams to ensure our systems are scalable, secure, and efficient - whether they’re internal platforms or customer-facing services.

This is a hybrid role based at our Crewe head office site, with the flexibility to work from home two days per week.

What you’ll be doing

• Primary support and maintenance of the group’s Linux estate.
• Additional support and maintenance of the group’s AWS infrastructure .
• Automating infrastructure tasks such as environment builds, scaling, monitoring, and patching.
• Collaborating with Software Development and DevOps teams to meet infrastructure needs.
• Researching and recommending improvements to enhance service levels and efficiency.
• Documenting systems and following change management protocols.
• Ensuring compliance with internal controls and security standards.

What we’re looking for

Essential skills:

• Proven experience with Linux technologies (Ubuntu, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Nginx, Postfix, Git)
• Familiarity with configuration tools (Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Ninja)
• Experience with AWS services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, VPC, Route53, S3, RDS, CloudWatch, CloudFormation)
• Knowledge of Windows Server (Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS)
• Scripting skills in Python and Bash
• Solid understanding of IT security fundamentals
• Ability to manage SLAs and prioritise competing requirements
• Awareness of emerging tech trends and industry drivers

Desirable skills:

• Understanding of ITIL and service management disciplines
• Strong stakeholder communication and relationship-building skills
• Experience supporting software development teams with infrastructure best practices

Your impact on Radius will be rewarded with the opportunity to develop and progress your career in many directions.

You’ll also have access to our competitive reward and benefits package, which includes:

• Pension
• Life assurance
• Employee fuel card scheme
• Electric Vehicle scheme
• Employee assistance programme
• Wellness and healthcare assistance via ‘Help@Hand’ by Unum
• ‘Cycle to work’ scheme
• Free breakfast daily in the office

And of course, you will be part of a modern purpose-built space in Crewe that will provide you with an outstanding working environment complete with gym, café, games rooms, and more!

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Still Curious?

If you feel we are a good match for each other, you can apply online now!

If you’d like to understand more about the role or life at Radius before applying, then please contact our talent team via .

Radius is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all candidates. If you require any adjustments or accommodations at any stage of the process, please let us know, and we will do our best to support you.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date in the event of an overwhelming response or a change in business priorities.

Note to recruitment agencies:

We do not accept speculative recruitment agency CVs or profiles. Any unsolicited CV received by Radius will be treated as a gift and not eligible for an agency fee.

PSL agencies should only send CVs via our Applicant Tracking System, when approved to do so by the Radius Talent Team.