Senior Devops / Systems Engineer | Up To £80,000 | Fully Remote
Summary
Hands-on senior DevOps/SysAdmin role (via recruiter Pearson Carter) for a UK technology company, fully remote. Day to day: managing a production AWS estate, Terraform/Ansible infrastructure, WAF/CDN (Akamai, Cloudflare), CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, incident response, and Python/Bash automation, plus rotating 24/7 on-call.
Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer up to £80,000 Fully Remote
Pearson Carter are currently working with an exciting technology company who are looking to expand their team with a strong Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer.
This is a hands-on role supporting a production AWS environment, CDN and WAF infrastructure, and the CI/CD pipelines used by development teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage, monitor and improve a production AWS estate
- Design, maintain and improve infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
- Write and tune WAF rules across Akamai and Cloudflare
- Support and improve CI/CD pipelines
- Maintain infrastructure including nginx, Redis and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
- Monitor and respond to infrastructure issues using tools such as Zabbix, CloudWatch, Pingdom and New Relic
- Investigate production incidents, identify root causes and coordinate with relevant teams
- Automate repetitive tasks using Python and Bash
- Participate in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule
Experience
- 5 years of experience in a DevOps or Systems Administration role
- Strong Linux systems administration experience within a production environment
- Strong cloud architecture experience and knowledge of AWS services including EC2, load balancers and VPC
- Experience with nginx, Redis, Apache and MariaDB/RDS/Postgres
- Strong experience with Terraform
- Experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
- Strong Python and Bash scripting skills for automation
- Experience managing CDN and WAF infrastructure, particularly Akamai
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines
Salary
They offer a strong salary of up to £80,000, plus a strong benefits package.
Location
This is a fully remote position, based in the UK.
The role includes participation in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule, currently two weeks in every four, moving to two weeks in every six once the successful candidate is fully established in the role.