The Role

Location: (Guildford hybrid role)
Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Due to continued expansion, Britannic Technologies has an exciting opportunity for a talented Experienced DevOps professional.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced DevOps Systems Administrator with expertise across AWS and private cloud infrastructure. This hands-on role will see you architecting, implementing, and supporting secure, scalable, and automated infrastructure across both public and private environments.

As part of our Development teams, you will collaborate with departments across the business to enhance and maintain our systems, support ongoing projects, and drive the adoption of DevOps best practices. You will work extensively with Terraform, Ansible, Git, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, and modern observability tooling such as Grafana.

This position is ideal for a proactive, professional individual with strong technical breadth across multiple disciplines and a passion for automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain highly available infrastructure across AWS and private cloud environments.
  • Collaborate with development, operations, and support teams to optimise infrastructure, security, and system performance.
  • Automate and streamline deployment, provisioning, and configuration using Ansible, Terraform, and Git.
  • Implement and support monitoring and observability stacks including Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, and CloudWatch.
  • Support incident management, troubleshooting, and system reliability improvements across cloud and on-prem environments.
  • Ensure system security is maintained through best practices, configuration management, and compliance processes.
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, helping enhance reliability, scalability, and automation.

Specific Role Responsibilities

  • Architect, deploy, maintain, and document infrastructure to ensure service stability and scalability.
  • Implement and optimise CI/CD pipelines using Git-based workflows (GitHub Actions).
  • Automate provisioning and configuration with Terraform and Ansible.
  • Establish observability and monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana.
  • Manage hybrid networking and security, including IAM, VPNs, firewalls, and secrets management.
  • Work with the Development team to implement upgrades and installation changes in upcoming releases.
  • Collaborate with teams such as Voice Engineering, Network Operations, and Projects for fault resolution and service delivery.
  • Support incident management and system reliability improvements across all environments.
  • Participate in the On-Call Rota as required.
  • Work with senior technical leads to design scalable, highly available architectures.
  • Review operational and technical requirements and propose automated, consistent solutions.
  • Mentor team members, promote DevOps best practices, and support continuous improvement.
  • Develop and deliver technical product demonstrations for clients.
  • Create and maintain installation procedures for new products.
  • Maintain accurate documentation and provide timely information, advice, and guidance to colleagues.

Essential Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years of DevOps experience with strong hands-on AWS expertise.
  • Proven experience managing private cloud platforms such as VMware and/or ProxMox.
  • Strong knowledge of Ansible for automation and Git for version control.
  • Skilled in Infrastructure as Code, particularly with Terraform.
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Expertise with Kubernetes, such as AWS EKS.
  • Strong Linux administration, networking fundamentals, and cloud security knowledge.
  • Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch).
  • Proficiency in scripting with Python, Bash, or Go.

Preferred / Nice to Have

  • AWS certifications (Solutions Architect, DevOps Engineer, SysOps).
  • Experience with automation for VMware vSphere/vCenter or ProxMox.
  • Familiarity with security scanning tools such as Trivy.

Why Join Britannic Technologies?

  • Be part of an established, supportive, and forward-thinking technical team.
  • Work in a growing business where your expertise makes a real impact.
  • Opportunities for training, certification, and career development.
  • A collaborative culture that values innovation and continuous improvement.

If you're an experienced DevOps professional looking to take the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help us shape the future of our cloud and infrastructure services!

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