Senior System Engineer

Do you bring a Devops approach and are you familiar with Infrastructure as Code and Terraform, as well as Containerisation, Kubernetes and Openshift?Increase your chances of an interview by reading the following overview of this role before making an application.

A role with plenty of scope to innovate and develop our approach, ensuring we design and implement new solutions that are fit for purpose, cost effective and will scale as we do.

Work with a diverse range of technologies including but not limited to: Virtualization, Infrastructure as Code, AWS, Azure, Containers, Kubernetes, Linux, RHEL, PostgreSQL, Monitoring and Cybersecurity.

You will build new servers / systems as well as ensure that all our existing ones are maintained, reliable and resilient and our applications are installed and operating smoothly.

As we continue to scale and mature there are always numerous innovative projects to work on to improve and upgrade technology as well as improve workflow and processes.

Note: this role is part of the 24/ 7 on call rota, although call outs are rare this would be 1 week in 4 and is remunerated separately.

Key areas we would love to see knowledge and understanding to discuss further would be:

Virtualization - platforms such as Vmware / Redhat Openshift

Kubernetes and Docker

Configuration Management Systems – Puppet / Ansible

Linux Administration – redhat family OS, including RHEL, Alma and some legacy CentOS

Core internet applications protocols – DHCP / DNS

Monitoring Systems – Icinga2 / Elastic Stack / InfluxDB / Grafana

Application and network security best practices – SSH / Iptables / TLS

AWS (EC2 / VPS / RDS/ EKS / S3)

Terraform

Databases – PostgreSQL / MySQL

CI/CD and DevOps Tools / principles

About Us

Gigaclear is a leading alternative operator of rural full fibre broadband networks in the UK. Offering customers a truly world class product, we are developing our fibre-to-the-premises broadband (FTTP / FTTH) infrastructure to some of the most difficult to reach areas of the UK, empowering those communities with broadband to rival any city.