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# NOC Engineer

- **Company:** Spectrum IT Recruitment
- **Location:** Gloucester, UK (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £50,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Bash Shell, Cloud Computing, Linux, Domain Name System (DNS), Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Prometheus, TCP/IP, Datadog, Scripting, Load Balancing, Computer Network Operations, Computer Network Technologies, Grafana, Cloudwatch, Terraform, Splunk, Docker
- **Published:** October 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2991230035-2

## About the Role

Ideally, you'll come from a background in production engineering, cloud operations or a network operations centre, with hands-on experience in some or all of the following:

 * Administering Linux systems
 * Working with AWS infrastructure
 * Running workloads on Terraform and Docker
 * Supporting live production systems and handling incidents
 * Scripting in Python, Bash or Go
 * Using observability and monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk or CloudWatch
 * A solid grasp of core networking concepts, including DNS, TCP/IP and load balancing
 * A genuine drive to automate, improve and deliver operational excellence

## Description

* Keeping a close eye on business-critical AWS production environments and ensuring they stay up and performing well
 * Taking ownership of live incidents within a round-the-clock service and seeing them through to resolution
 * Digging into difficult technical problems and getting services back online with speed and precision
 * Writing automation that removes repetitive manual work and makes the platform more robust
 * Enhancing the monitoring, alerting and observability tooling used across our cloud estate
 * Partnering with software, platform, cloud and security teams to raise the bar on reliability and operational standards
 * Taking part in incident retrospectives and turning lessons learned into lasting improvements
 * Looking after containerised applications running on Terraform and Docker