Senior Devops/Systems Engineer
Senior DevOps/Systems Engineer (hired via recruiter Pearson Carter for a growing UK organisation) owning AWS cloud infrastructure, Linux production systems and reliability. Day-to-day: Terraform/Ansible automation, nginx/Redis/PostgreSQL/OpenSearch stack, CI/CD with Bitbucket Pipelines, monitoring with CloudWatch/Zabbix/New Relic, and 24/7 on-call. Fully remote (Scotland office), salary up to £65k
- Compensation
- £65K / yr
- Location
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Devops
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Minimum 5 years in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering or Infrastructure Operations
- Strong Linux administration supporting business-critical production services
- Substantial hands-on AWS experience: EC2, VPCs, cloud networking, load balancing
- Web/app infrastructure knowledge: nginx, Apache, Redis, MariaDB/RDS, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
- Designing, implementing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
- Experience using Ansible for configuration management and automation
- Proficiency scripting with Python and Bash
- Familiarity with internet-facing infrastructure, CDN, WAF and edge security platforms
- Understanding of CI/CD practices, including Bitbucket Pipelines or equivalent
- Experience investigating service outages and delivering long-term fixes
- Strong technical reasoning across interconnected systems
- Clear communication and collaboration with developers and technical stakeholders
- Proactive technical ownership without constant supervision
- Ability to work methodically under pressure during incidents
- Flexibility for shared 24/7 on-call rota including out-of-hours support
- Legal right to work in the UK
Nice to have
- Experience with Akamai
Full description
Senior Engineer
Pearson Carter is partnering with a growing organisation that is investing in the development of its cloud infrastructure, systems architecture and technology operations. To support its continued growth, the business is looking to recruit an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer who can help shape its infrastructure strategy while ensuring its existing platforms remain secure, stable and efficient.
The successful candidate will take responsibility for a broad range of infrastructure and operational technologies, with a particular focus on AWS, Linux, infrastructure automation, cloud networking and production reliability. Alongside maintaining business-critical systems, you will contribute to technical projects that enhance scalability, strengthen security and improve the overall performance of the organisation's technology environment.
Working closely with development teams and other technical specialists, you will help establish robust infrastructure practices and improve the way systems are deployed, monitored and maintained. You will also play an important role in resolving complex technical challenges, investigating service disruptions and introducing automation to simplify operational tasks.
This position offers an excellent opportunity for an experienced DevOps, Cloud, Infrastructure or Systems Engineer who enjoys solving challenging technical problems, improving established environments and taking ownership of important systems within a collaborative technical team.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of AWS cloud infrastructure, ensuring services including EC2, VPCs, load balancers and networking components are configured, maintained and optimised effectively.
- Monitor and manage Linux servers and production systems, proactively addressing performance bottlenecks, availability concerns and operational risks.
- Support the administration and performance of web servers, application services, caching technologies and database platforms, including nginx, Apache, Redis, MariaDB/RDS, PostgreSQL and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
- Maintain and improve the security and delivery of internet-facing services, working with CDN, WAF and edge technologies such as Akamai and Cloudflare.
- Build and maintain reusable infrastructure provisioning solutions using Terraform, alongside Ansible for configuration management and system automation.
- Partner with software engineers to improve release processes, deployment reliability and delivery workflows, making effective use of Bitbucket Pipelines and similar CI/CD tools.
- Establish and refine monitoring, logging, alerting and observability practices using platforms such as Zabbix, AWS CloudWatch, Pingdom and New Relic.