Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer – Remote UK

Closing Gap; Dundee; Remote; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Closing Gap is seeking a Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer to join the Infrastructure team for a leading UK Q-commerce platform. You will combine modern DevOps with hands-on Linux systems administration, tackling production issues across cloud and OS layers in a remote UK setting.

Key responsibilities include managing AWS infrastructure, building IaC with Terraform, configuring automation via Ansible, maintaining CI/CD pipelines and working with Nginx, Redis, and OpenSearch.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Linux Systems Administration experience in business-critical production environments.
• Strong AWS infrastructure and networking experience.
• Solid experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with Ansible and configuration management.
• Strong CI/CD experience.
• Good Python and Bash scripting skills.
• Hands-on experience with Nginx, Redis and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Experience with CDN and WAF technologies.
• Strong production troubleshooting and incident management experience.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms.
• Comfortable taking ownership of production issues from investigation through to resolution.
• Able to work closely with Software Engineers and other technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage, monitor and improve AWS infrastructure and Linux production environments.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across Linux, networking and applications.
• Maintain and optimise Nginx, Redis and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Manage configuration and automation using Ansible.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Write and manage WAF rules across Akamai and Cloudflare.
• Work with CDN and networking technologies.
• Monitor infrastructure using tools such as Zabbix, CloudWatch, Pingdom and New Relic.
• Investigate production incidents, perform root‑cause analysis and implement permanent fixes.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks using Python and Bash.
• Participate in the on‑call rota after completing onboarding.

Skills

Linux administration

Python

Bash

AWS

CI/CD

Incident management

Production troubleshooting

Networking basics

Ownership

Collaboration with engineers

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Nginx

Redis

OpenSearch/Elasticsearch

CI/CD pipelines

Zabbix

CloudWatch

Pingdom

New Relic

Akamai

Cloudflare

Job description

Closing Gap is seeking a Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer to join the Infrastructure team for a leading UK Q-commerce platform. You will combine modern DevOps with hands-on Linux systems administration, tackling production issues across cloud and OS layers in a remote UK setting.

Key responsibilities include managing AWS infrastructure, building IaC with Terraform, configuring automation via Ansible, maintaining CI/CD pipelines and working with Nginx, Redis, and OpenSearch.