Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer - Fully Remote (UK)

Pearson Carter; Manchester; Remote; GBP 72,000 - 88,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Job summary

Pearson Carter are partnering with a fast-growing technology business to recruit a Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer. You’ll take ownership of a live AWS environment, ensuring reliability, security and performance across production systems.

The role is fully remote in the UK. You’ll build cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, configure CDN/WAF (Akamai/Cloudflare), manage nginx/Redis/OpenSearch, support CI/CD pipelines, handle on-call rotations, and drive automation with Python and Bash

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience administering Linux systems in a live production environment.
• Strong understanding of AWS infrastructure and cloud architecture, including EC2, VPCs and load balancing.
• Practical experience managing web and application infrastructure such as nginx, Apache and Redis.
• Good knowledge of relational database technologies including MariaDB, PostgreSQL and AWS RDS.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain infrastructure through Terraform.
• Experience supporting and managing OpenSearch or Elasticsearch environments.
• Confident writing automation and operational tooling using Python and Bash.
• Previous experience working with CDN and WAF technologies, with Akamai experience particularly desirable.
• Solid understanding of modern CI/CD practices and experience supporting deployment pipelines.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively during production incidents.
• Comfortable working collaboratively with development, infrastructure and wider technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day operation and reliability of AWS production infrastructure.
• Build and optimise cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform and Ansible.
• Configure, maintain and enhance CDN and Web Application Firewall solutions across Akamai and Cloudflare.
• Develop, maintain and troubleshoot CI/CD processes supporting software engineering teams.
• Administer and optimise key infrastructure services including nginx, Redis and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Use monitoring and observability platforms including Zabbix, AWS CloudWatch, Pingdom and New Relic to identify and resolve issues.
• Lead investigations into production incidents, carrying out root-cause analysis and implementing preventative improvements.
• Develop automation and tooling with Python and Bash to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual processes.
• Work closely with development and technical teams to improve system availability, performance and resilience.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements, security initiatives and general platform engineering projects.
• Take part in a shared 24/7 on-call rota and provide support for critical infrastructure incidents.

Skills

DevOps

Linux administration

AWS infrastructure

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Python

Bash

On-call support

Incident response

Monitoring

Nginx

Redis

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Tools

Akamai CDN

Cloudflare CDN

New Relic

Zabbix

AWS CloudWatch

Pingdom

Nginx

Apache

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

Job description

Pearson Carter are partnering with a fast-growing technology business to recruit a Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer. You’ll take ownership of a live AWS environment, ensuring reliability, security and performance across production systems.

The role is fully remote in the UK. You’ll build cloud infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible, configure CDN/WAF (Akamai/Cloudflare), manage nginx/Redis/OpenSearch, support CI/CD pipelines, handle on-call rotations, and drive automation with Python and Bash