Senior DevOps/Systems Engineer

Location: Fully remote; applicants must have the legal right to work in the UK. An office is available in Scotland.

Salary: £50,000–£70,000 per annum, dependent on experience; up to £65,000 also stated.

Company

hirify.global is partnering with a growing organisation investing in cloud infrastructure, systems architecture, and technology operations.

What you will do

• Own and optimise AWS infrastructure, including EC2, VPCs, load balancers, and cloud networking.
• Administer Linux servers and production systems, addressing performance, availability, and operational risks.
• Manage web, application, caching, and database infrastructure, including nginx, Apache, Redis, MariaDB/RDS, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Build infrastructure provisioning and configuration automation with Terraform and Ansible.
• Improve deployment workflows, CI/CD, monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability with tools including Bitbucket Pipelines, Zabbix, AWS CloudWatch, Pingdom, and New Relic.
• Lead major incident investigations, resolve complex infrastructure issues, and implement corrective measures that improve security, reliability, maintainability, and efficiency.

Requirements

• At least five years of experience in DevOps Engineering, Cloud Infrastructure, Systems Engineering, or Infrastructure Operations.
• Strong experience administering Linux environments and supporting business-critical services in live production systems.
• Substantial hands-on AWS experience, particularly with EC2, VPCs, cloud networking, and load balancing.
• Practical experience with nginx, Apache, Redis, MariaDB/RDS, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining Infrastructure as Code, with strong Terraform skills.
• Experience using Ansible for configuration automation, system consistency, and infrastructure operations.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Understanding of internet-facing infrastructure, CDN services, web application firewalls, edge security, automated software delivery, deployment pipelines, and CI/CD, including Bitbucket Pipelines or an equivalent.
• Experience investigating outages and infrastructure faults, identifying root causes, and delivering long-term fixes; strong technical reasoning, communication, collaboration, ownership, and prioritisation skills.
• Ability to work methodically under pressure during production incidents and participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rota, including occasional out-of-hours support.

Nice to have

• Experience with Akamai.

Culture & Benefits

• Annual performance bonus and employee profit share.
• Company pension, sick pay, and a health and wellbeing programme.
• Ongoing training and professional development.
• Supportive and collaborative working environment with company events and casual dress.
• Cycle to Work scheme, referral programme, and free on-site parking.