Rise Technical Recruitment
Senior DevOps Systems Administrator
Job Description
Salary: £60,000 - 65,000 per year
Requirements:- Extensive DevOps experience, specifically including AWS, VMware/Proxmox, and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Highly proficient in Bash, Python, or Go for automation and system management
- Strong Linux and networking knowledge with a focus on cloud security
- Experience with Terraform and Ansible to drive scalability
- Ability to manage hybrid networks and respond to incidents with resilience
- Experience building and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines
- Familiarity with virtualisation platforms like VMware or Proxmox
- AWS certifications or Trivy knowledge is a plus
- Design and deploy AWS/Private Cloud solutions
- Build reliable pipelines via GitHub Actions
- Implement monitoring using Grafana, Prometheus, and CloudWatch
- Manage IAM, firewalls, and VPNs
- Collaborate across teams to improve system reliability
- Mentor team members
- Maintain high-quality documentation
- Participate in the on-call rota to ensure resilience
- Offer extensive support to help architect hybrid cloud solutions
- Lead automation efforts and streamline infrastructure using modern tooling
- AWS
- Ansible
- Architect
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CloudWatch
- DevOps
- GitHub
- Grafana
- IAM
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- Prometheus
- Python
- Security
- Terraform
- VMware
More:
We are an established technology partner and managed service provider specialising in unified communications and cloud contact centre solutions. We help public and private sector organisations modernise their digital infrastructure with a focus on improving customer experience and operational efficiency through system integration and digital transformation. This is a remote role with one day a month on-site in Guildford, offering a salary of £60,000 to £65,000 plus Private Medical Insurance, holiday, and pension. It is a varied opportunity with autonomy, the chance to work on complex cloud projects, and the opportunity to progress within a forward-thinking organisation.
last updated 35 week of 2026
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Rise Technical Recruitment
Guildford
IT
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£62,500
This role
£75,000
UK median
This salary is 17% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks