Senior DevOps Engineer - AWS, Terraform, CI/CD (Remote)

Pearson Carter; Greater London; Remote; GBP 48,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson Carter are partnering with an exciting technology company to hire a Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer. This fully remote role focuses on supporting a production AWS environment, CDN/WAF infra, and CI/CD pipelines used by development teams.

Key duties include designing IaC with Terraform and Ansible, tuning WAF rules for Akamai/Cloudflare, and maintaining nginx, Redis and OpenSearch. Strong Linux, AWS, Python and Bash skills are essential.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Skills

5+ years in DevOps

Strong Linux

On-call readiness

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Ansible

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Nginx

Redis

PostgreSQL / MariaDB

CloudWatch

Zabbix

New Relic

Akamai CDN/WAF

Cloudflare

Python

Bash

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Pearson Carter are partnering with an exciting technology company to hire a Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer. This fully remote role focuses on supporting a production AWS environment, CDN/WAF infra, and CI/CD pipelines used by development teams.

Key duties include designing IaC with Terraform and Ansible, tuning WAF rules for Akamai/Cloudflare, and maintaining nginx, Redis and OpenSearch. Strong Linux, AWS, Python and Bash skills are essential.