NOC Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work (UK-based)

Rotating 24/7 shifts

Bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

Spectrum IT is seeking a NOC Engineer to monitor and harden our large-scale AWS production environments. You’ll automate day-to-day tasks, improve observability, and prevent incidents before they impact services.

Remote work is available within the UK, with 24/7 rotating shifts to cover the cycle. You’ll collaborate with software, platform, cloud and security teams to strengthen reliability and incident response.

Qualifications

• Ideal background in production engineering or cloud operations with hands-on AWS, Linux and containerised apps.
• Experience in live incident management and ensuring service reliability.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash or Go.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog or Splunk.

Responsibilities

• Monitor AWS production environments to ensure uptime and performance.
• Take ownership of live incidents and drive resolution 24/7.
• Investigate complex issues and restore services quickly and accurately.
• Develop automation to remove repetitive tasks and harden the platform.
• Improve monitoring, alerting and observability across the cloud estate.
• Collaborate with software, platform, cloud and security teams to raise reliability.
• Participate in incident retrospectives and implement improvements.
• Manage containerised apps on Terraform and Docker.

Skills

Incident management

Automation mindset

Networking fundamentals

Scripting

Observability

Tools

AWS

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 package

Help 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'll 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