Senior Linux DevOps Engineer – Hybrid London

Redtech Recruitment Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Pension

Life insurance

Additional holiday

Job summary

RedTech Recruitment Ltd. in London is hiring a Senior Linux DevOps Engineer. You will own large-scale production environments, focusing on Linux, containers, Kubernetes, automation and cloud infrastructure. The role is hybrid with office presence required a minimum of 2 days per week.

The ideal candidate has strong Linux administration, scripting (Python), and hands-on container orchestration experience, plus CI/CD pipeline and observability tool expertise.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems administration and command line skills, with experience operating and troubleshooting large-scale production environments.
• Hands‑on experience operating containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and observability technologies such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry or the ELK Stack.
• Commercial experience with Microsoft Azure or another major cloud platform such as AWS or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Operate, troubleshoot, secure and automate large-scale Linux‑based production environments.
• Build and improve containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Diagnose complex infrastructure, networking and performance issues, supporting incident response and root cause analysis.
• Develop automation, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD processes to improve engineering efficiency and reliability.
• Implement and enhance monitoring, logging and observability across production systems.
• Manage and optimise Linux workloads deployed within cloud environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve infrastructure, platforms, processes and tooling.

Skills

Linux

DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Networking

Observability

Cloud platforms

Python

Automation

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK Stack

OpenTelemetry

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

RedTech Recruitment Ltd. in London is hiring a Senior Linux DevOps Engineer. You will own large-scale production environments, focusing on Linux, containers, Kubernetes, automation and cloud infrastructure. The role is hybrid with office presence required a minimum of 2 days per week.

The ideal candidate has strong Linux administration, scripting (Python), and hands-on container orchestration experience, plus CI/CD pipeline and observability tool expertise.