Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer | up to £80,000 | Fully Remote

Pearson Whiffin Recruitment Ltd
London, UK
13 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
£60,000.0 - £80,000.0
Working hours
Shift work

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Apache HTTP Server Systems Engineering Bash Shell Cloud Engineering DevOps Elasticsearch Python (Programming Language) PostgreSQL Linux System Administration MariaDB
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Nginx Redis Ansible Akamai Zabbix Load Balancing Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Cloudflare Cloudwatch Terraform New Relic (SaaS)

Job description

  • Manage, monitor and improve a production AWS estate
  • Design, maintain and improve infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible
  • Write and tune WAF rules across Akamai and Cloudflare
  • Support and improve CI/CD pipelines
  • Maintain infrastructure including nginx, Redis and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
  • Monitor and respond to infrastructure issues using tools such as Zabbix, CloudWatch, Pingdom and New Relic
  • Investigate production incidents, identify root causes and coordinate with relevant teams
  • Automate repetitive tasks using Python and Bash
  • Participate in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule, The role includes participation in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule, currently two weeks in every four, moving to two weeks in every six once the successful candidate is fully established in the role.

Requirements

  • 5 years of experience in a DevOps or Systems Administration role
  • Strong Linux systems administration experience within a production environment
  • Strong cloud architecture experience and knowledge of AWS services including EC2, load balancers and VPC
  • Experience with nginx, Redis, Apache and MariaDB/RDS/Postgres
  • Strong experience with Terraform
  • Experience with OpenSearch/Elasticsearch
  • Strong Python and Bash scripting skills for automation
  • Experience managing CDN and WAF infrastructure, particularly Akamai
  • Experience working with CI/CD pipelines

Benefits & conditions

They offer a strong salary of up to £80,000, plus a strong benefits package.

About the company

Pearson Carter are currently working with an exciting technology company who are looking to expand their team with a strong Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer., Pearson Carter is the Global Leader in IT Recruitment with specialist roles across the globe - www.pearsoncarter.com

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