DevOps Engineer

Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer | up to £75,000 | Fully Remote

Pearson Carter are currently working with an exciting technology company who are looking to expand their team with a strong Senior DevOps / Systems Engineer.

This is a hands-on role supporting a production AWS environment, CDN and WAF infrastructure, and the CI/CD pipelines used by development teams.

Get in touch if you are looking for your next opportunity!

Responsibilities:

• 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

Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in a DevOps/Systems Administration
• 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

Salary

They offer a strong salary of up to £75,000, plus a strong benefits package.

Location

This is a fully remote position, based in the UK.

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.

How to Apply

Please apply asap with your CV to be considered for this position. You can also get in touch with me on cameron.s@pearsoncarter.com or 0191 406 6111.

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