NOC Engineer

Spectrum IT Recruitment; Caddington; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectrum IT Recruitment is seeking a NOC Engineer for UK-based remote work, with 24/7 rotating shifts across days and nights, to keep AWS production environments up and performing.

You'll automate operations with Terraform and Docker, enhance monitoring with Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog or CloudWatch, and collaborate with software, platform and security teams to improve reliability.

This role focuses on proactive resilience and end-to-end service improvements in a large-scale cloud infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Background in production engineering or cloud operations.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Linux and containerised work.
• Automation mindset and incident handling experience.

Responsibilities

• Monitor AWS production environments and keep them up and performing.
• Own live incidents and manage through to resolution.
• Investigate problems and restore services quickly.
• Write automation to remove repetitive manual work.
• Improve monitoring and observability tooling.
• Collaborate with software, platform, cloud and security teams to boost reliability.
• Participate in incident retrospectives and drive improvements.
• Manage containerised apps with Terraform and Docker.

Skills

Linux administration

AWS infrastructure

Terraform & Docker

Live incidents handling

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Observability tools

Networking fundamentals

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Grafana

Prometheus

Datadog

CloudWatch

Job description

NOC Engineer

Remote working (UK-based)

24/7 rotating shifts (28-day cycle covering days and nights)

Competitive salary, bonus and a strong benefits packageHelp keep essential national services running, and make them stronger every day.

Forget what you think you know about NOC work. This role sits within an organisation driven by engineers, where platform stability, automation and ongoing refinement guide everything we do. Your focus won't just be fixing things when they break. You'll be finding the weak spots before they cause problems, streamlining day-to-day operations through automation, and playing a real part in how our cloud services evolve.

If you get a buzz from tackling tricky technical challenges and want to work on dependable, large-scale cloud infrastructure, this could be the role for you.

Your responsibilities

• Keeping a close eye on business-critical AWS production environments and ensuring they stay up and performing well
• Taking ownership of live incidents within a round-the-clock service and seeing them through to resolution
• Digging into difficult technical problems and getting services back online with speed and precision
• Writing automation that removes repetitive manual work and makes the platform more robust
• Enhancing the monitoring, alerting and observability tooling used across our cloud estate
• Partnering with software, platform, cloud and security teams to raise the bar on reliability and operational standards
• Taking part in incident retrospectives and turning lessons learned into lasting improvements
• Looking after containerised applications running on Terraform and Docker

What you'll bring

Ideally, you will come from a background in production engineering, cloud operations or a network operations centre, with hands‑on experience in some or all of the following:

• Administering Linux systems
• Working with AWS infrastructure
• Running workloads on Terraform and Docker
• Supporting live production systems and handling incidents
• Scripting in Python, Bash or Go
• Using observability and monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk or CloudWatch
• A solid grasp of core networking concepts, including DNS, TCP/IP and load balancing
• A genuine drive to automate, improve and deliver operational excellence