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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # DevOps & Systems Administrator - **Company:** urban - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £60,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Kubernetes Security, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Automation of Tests, Microsoft Azure, Bash Shell, Ubuntu (Operating System), CentOS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Engineering, Databases, Continuous Integration, Linux, DevOps, Github, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Network Architecture, Node.Js, Package Management Systems, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ansible, Prometheus, SQL Databases, Datadog, Scripting, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Autoscaling, Delivery Pipeline, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Gitlab, Cloudformation, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Puppet, Terraform, Software Version Control, Docker, Jenkins, Vulnerability Analysis, Golang - **Published:** October 2, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5905468422 ## About the Role * Were looking for a systems administrator or infrastructure engineer with strong Linux, cloud platform, networking, and security fundamentals. * We require 3+ years of hands-on experience building and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including compute, storage, databases, networking, infrastructure-as-code, cost optimisation, and cloud architecture patterns. * We require 3+ years of experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or an equivalent platform, including automated testing, deployment workflows, and container deployment. * We require 5+ years of Linux systems administration experience in production environments, including expertise with Ubuntu, CentOS, or RHEL, Bash scripting, service and package management, user permissions, log management, and troubleshooting. * We require 2+ years of experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation. * We require 2+ years of experience with Docker containerisation and scripting in Python, Bash, Go, or similar. * We prefer 2+ years of experience with monitoring and observability tools and 2+ years of experience with Kubernetes or other container orchestration. * We value strategic thinking about infrastructure and scaling, clear communication with developers and leadership, collaborative problem-solving, reliability, and a passion for automation and simplification. * We prefer candidates with United Kingdom work authorisation. * We ask applicants to describe an infrastructure project they owned end-to-end, including its most challenging aspect and what they would do differently. ## Description * We need you to design, deploy, maintain, and evolve our cloud infrastructure, including compute, databases, storage, load balancing, auto-scaling, networking, and cost optimisation. * We need you to define infrastructure in version control using infrastructure-as-code and manage network architecture, security groups, routing, and segmentation. * We need you to design and maintain CI/CD infrastructure and automated testing, build, and deployment workflows. * We need you to manage containerisation standards, registries, orchestration, Kubernetes clusters, Helm charts, container security, and vulnerability scanning. * We need you to build and maintain observability, monitoring, alerting, and on-call infrastructure; develop incident procedures and runbooks; and improve performance, capacity, and resilience. * We need you to strengthen infrastructure security through hardening, secret management, network protection, compliance support, vulnerability scanning, and patching. * We need you to write automation scripts, manage infrastructure version control and change processes, and document architecture and operational procedures. * We need you to work with developers and help modernise and scale infrastructure so teams can deploy confidently and incidents decrease. Technologies: * AWS * Azure * Bash * CI/CD * Cloud * Docker * GCP * GitHub * GitLab * Helm * Support * Jenkins * Kubernetes * Linux * Load Balancing * Network * Python * RHEL * Security * Terraform * Ubuntu * Ansible * Datadog * EC2 * ELK * NodeJS * Prometheus * Puppet * SQL ## Related Videos - [Docker network without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1418-docker-network-without-docker) - [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started) - [Go with the Flow: Stop the Leaks Before Your Memory's a Waterfall!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100073-go-with-the-flow-stop-the-leaks-before-your-memory-s-a-waterfall) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Docker exec without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1094-docker-exec-without-docker) - [Docker build without Docker](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100114-docker-build-without-docker) ## Related Articles - [DevOps Engineer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/203-devops-engineer-salary-2023) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated)