Senior Systems Engineer

brandwatch; Colchester; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in digital consumer intelligence seeks an experienced System Engineer to join their Data Center and Networks team. The role involves managing Kubernetes clusters, supporting data center operations, and working with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates will have strong systems administration capabilities and a passion for emerging technologies. This position offers flexible remote work options, albeit with some travel to data centers in London.

Qualifications

• Experience with a distributed system, ideally Kubernetes.
• Installed and used at least one type of Linux or BSD.
• Willingness to learn as systems evolve.

Responsibilities

• Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters.
• Full lifecycle management of hardware in data centers.
• Diagnosing and fixing hardware and software issues.

Skills

Systems administration

Site reliability engineering

DevOps

IT support

Ability to script or program

Tools

Kubernetes

Linux

Juniper networks

Virtualization

Job description

Brandwatch is the world’s premier social suite, empowering over 7,500 of the world’s most admired companies to understand and engage with customers at the speed of social.Combining pioneering, AI-enriched digital consumer intelligence with industry-leading social media management tools, Brandwatch offers a complementary suite of specialized, best-in-class products and services that support intelligently connected workflows. With Brandwatch, brands and agencies can adapt and thrive in today’s fast moving digital world by making smarter decisions and executing data-driven social strategies at every customer touchpoint.Operating and serving clients the world over, Brandwatch has 15 offices across the globe and more than 1,000 employees worldwide. Brandwatch is a Cision Company.The Data Centre and Networks (DCN) team at Brandwatch look after servers, switching and routing hardware to maintain tens of thousands of CPU cores, terabytes of memory and petabytes of storage used to provide Brandwatch services to customers. The DCN team are responsible for the whole data centre stack up to Kubernetes. You will work closely with the data infrastructure team who look after our big data systems and our Developer platform and SRE teams that provide services on top of Kubernetes and monitoring infrastructure. We are open to remote working, if you are a highly experienced systems engineer, we can drop the need to visit UK data centres regularly, but the entire team are expected to help out with data centre work as required. Data Center is located in London. Must live within 2-hour drive.

Our Tech Stack:

We don’t expect you to know everything about the systems we use, but you will be exposed to and have a chance to learn about the following:

Linux (mostly Debian)

Juniper networks

Virtualization (libvirt/kvm)

Foreman

Puppet

PowerDNS

NGINX

Kubernetes

Your role will include:

Deploying/maintaining Kubernetes clusters

Full lifecycle management of all hardware in all data centres

Linux provisioning and rebuilds

Responding to monitoring alarms and tracking performance metrics

Diagnose and fix hardware and software issues

Actioning and resolving tickets from other Brandwatch engineers.

Dealing with suppliers, checking in deliveries, processing RMAs and managing stock

Working with onsite data centre staff to resolve environment and power issues

Some Travelling between London Hayes and Maidstone (full EU driving license required)

You will have:

A desire to learn, the systems we use will change and evolve over time.

Experience of systems administration, site reliability engineering, DevOps, IT support

Experience with a distributed system (ideally Kubernetes)

Installed and used at least one of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Illumos or NetBSD

Ability to script or program in any language

Ability to lift 10 kg (racking servers if needed)

Our Values: We Act with Care -We invest in our teams, treat each other with respect, and understand that people are the center of our work. We care about our purpose and invest heavily in services to better support our customers. We Take Pride -We take pride in the quality of our products and services, our company, and each other. We Spark Change - We are agents of change and we are pioneers in our industry. We reward creativity and value the lessons that come not only from success, but failure as well.If you’ve found our job opportunity interesting but you don’t meet all of the requirements, it’s still worth applying. We’d love to hear from you!Brandwatch is a globally distributed organization. However, we can’t provide any legal sponsorship to attain a work visa or permit in your country of residence, nor in any of the countries where we operate. We strongly advise you to seek legal counsel to ensure your residential status is fully legal before you apply. Any offer of employment we make you will be conditional upon you having the right to work in your hiring location and Brandwatch will verify this as part of the onboarding process.To all recruitment agencies: Brandwatch does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or Brandwatch employees. Brandwatch is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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Created on 02/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom