Remote DevOps Engineer / SysAdmin

Salary: £67,000 - 107,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong Linux systems administration experience, ideally with CentOS and RHEL
• Experience working with cloud technologies such as AWS, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, and GCP
• Strong scripting and management skills with languages such as Bash and Java
• Experience with automation and container technologies such as Terraform, Puppet, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Experience with database environments such as MySQL, Oracle, and Vertica is desirable
• Solid core networking knowledge, including VPNs, firewalls, and load balancing
• Excellent organisation and communication skills
• Awareness of ITIL

Responsibilities

• Support production Linux/RHEL infrastructure and associated applications to ensure high availability
• Configure infrastructure environments for automation and orchestration, optimising for efficiency
• Conduct root-cause analysis of application and infrastructure faults and resolve technical problems
• Perform system upgrades across infrastructure, database, and containerisation technologies
• Spin up server environments using automation tools such as Salt, Puppet, Chef, and Terraform
• Manage AWS and IBM Cloud environments using shell scripting techniques and core Java where applicable
• Configure web servers and containerisation technologies including Apache, Tomcat, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Work within a small team, leading technical initiatives where needed and supporting ongoing production workload problem identification and resolution

Technologies

• AWS
• Bash
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Docker
• GCP
• IBM
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Load Balancing
• MySQL
• Oracle
• Puppet
• RHEL
• Terraform
• Tomcat
• Web
• ITIL

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We are a well-established business consultancy supporting one of our core industry data insight platforms. We are looking for a DevOps Engineer / SysAdmin to join a small team on a 12-month+ contract, working inside IR35 on a fully remote basis across the UK, with an onboarding period at our headquarters in Bedfordshire and occasional ad-hoc check-ins on site. The contract rate is £425 to £540, and local accommodation costs are provided during onboarding.

last updated 28 week of 2026