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Senior Cloud Operations Engineer
£50,000 - 80,000
Sage
Osborne Avenue, Newcastle upon Tyne
£50,000 - 80,000
Requirements
Must:
- 5+ years in Cloud Operations, Site Reliability Engineering, or Systems Engineering roles in cloud-first or SaaS environments.
- Deep experience operating and troubleshooting infrastructure on AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, Lambda) and/or Azure.
- Expert in Linux system administration (RedHat or Debian), with strong fluency in networking, web stack configuration, and OS-level tuning.
- Proficient in Python and Bash scripting with a strong automation mindset.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
- Proven success in diagnosing and resolving high-impact production issues in distributed systems.
- Familiarity with modern monitoring and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, ELK, Zabbix).
- Comfortable supporting and optimizing web technologies such as NGINX, HAProxy, Apache, or Tomcat.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a fast-paced, highly collaborative team environment.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or container-based infrastructure (preferred).
- Familiarity with change and release readiness frameworks, including validation, monitoring, rollback, and support requirements (preferred).
- Previous experience improving the quality and efficiency of on-call practices or production runbooks (preferred).
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and release automation tooling (preferred).
Responsibilities
- Own, maintain, and improve production and development environments across AWS and Azure.
- Ensure systems are highly available, secure, and performant.
- Proactively support the health of core services and respond to incidents.
- Implement automation to enhance operational processes.
- Collaborate with engineering, platform, and release teams to deliver operational excellence.
- Manage well-defined processes and standards to scale our infrastructure effectively.
- Solve complex problems and build resilient, observable systems that are release ready.
Description
We are seeking a reliable and forward-thinking Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to help us scale and stabilize the cloud infrastructure that powers our growing suite of SaaS products. This is a hybrid role with 3 days per week onsite in Newcastle. As our infrastructure footprint grows rapidly, we rely on well-defined processes and standards to ensure we move fast without sacrificing reliability. We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative team environment and are looking for someone who thrives on owning infrastructure and driving operational excellence.
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