Senior Devops / Systems Engineer | Up To £80,000 | Fully Remote

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.