Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer — Automation, Kubernetes & Security

Centric Talent; Blackburn; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Centric Talent is seeking a Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer to join the team. The role is a hands-on senior position responsible for administration, reliability, security and continuous improvement of the TW Group infrastructure across Linux and Microsoft environments.

The successful candidate will own day-to-day infrastructure operations, work with the Software Development Team and IT Operations, and help enhance automation, monitoring and disaster recovery across the IT estate.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Systems Administration, Infrastructure Engineering or a similar role.
• Strong Linux administration experience across production environments.
• Experience with container platforms (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven ability to own complex technical problems with minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Administer and improve Linux and Windows server environments.
• Provision, configure and manage virtual machines and services.
• Deploy and configure applications and infrastructure components.
• Monitor health, performance, security and resilience of production systems.
• Investigate incidents and optimize recovery, logging and alerting.

Skills

Linux administration

Windows Server

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

CI/CD

MySQL / MSSQL

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CRI-O

Ansible

Job description

Centric Talent is seeking a Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer to join the team. The role is a hands-on senior position responsible for administration, reliability, security and continuous improvement of the TW Group infrastructure across Linux and Microsoft environments.

The successful candidate will own day-to-day infrastructure operations, work with the Software Development Team and IT Operations, and help enhance automation, monitoring and disaster recovery across the IT estate.