Key skills
AWSChefCloudDNSDockerElasticSearchGrafanaJenkinsKubernetesLAMPLinuxMySQLPostgresPrometheusPythonRustTCP/IPTerraformGoBashAIGitLab CIEKSHelmArgoCDPostgreSQLElasticsearchKibanaGitLabGitOpsCachingLoad BalancingCI/CDChange Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Design, implement, and maintain cloud infrastructure in AWS using Terraform, including development of reusable modules.
- Operate and enhance production Kubernetes clusters using Helm, Karpenter, ArgoCD, and AWS EKS.
- Implement and maintain GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments.
- Improve platform reliability through proactive monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, CheckMK, and internal tools.
- Automate operational processes using Bash, Python, Go, and Rust.
- Troubleshoot production incidents across infrastructure, networking, containers, and application layers.
- Support and optimise large-scale, database-driven systems (MySQL required; PostgreSQL a plus).
- Contribute to capacity planning, scaling strategies, and performance optimisation initiatives.
- Drive operational excellence improvements and incident reduction initiatives.
- Manage and optimise centralised logging using Elasticsearch, Filebeat, rsyslog, and Kibana.
- Maintain documentation and participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
- Collaborate with development teams on tools development, service improvements, and change management activities.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience in technical support, systems administration, or platform/infrastructure engineering
- Proficiency in LAMP/LNMP environments
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Experience with modern CI/CD tooling (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or equivalent)
- Strong Linux systems knowledge and troubleshooting capability
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP, load balancing, TLS, caching)
- Experience with cloud automation on AWS and Terraform
- Experience with Elasticsearch and log management
- Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar languages
- Experience administering MySQL databases
- Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Chef/Cinc (Desirable)
- PostgreSQL database experience (Desirable)
- Experience leveraging AI tools to improve code quality and establishing AI-related workflows (Desirable)
Tech Stack
- AWS
- Chef
- Cloud
- DNS
- Docker
- ElasticSearch
- Grafana
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- LAMP
- Linux
- MySQL
- Postgres
- Prometheus
- Python
- Rust
- TCP/IP
- Terraform
- Go
Benefits
- Hybrid work : 2–3 remote days + 20 days abroad per year
- Essentials : health cover, pension, taxsaver benefit, extra leave
- Flexible benefits : personalize with health, wellbeing & learning options
- D&I commitment : parental leave, Inclusive Day, gender equity in rewards
- L&D Support: Study Assistance and Study Leave
- Unbox Your World : Take 1 day leave per year as short notice (YOLO!) + paid sabbatical after 5 years
- Transparency : clear, fair salary bands and career levels