About this role
Salary: £60,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements
- Significant commercial experience managing production infrastructure environments.
- Strong Linux administration, configuration and troubleshooting skills.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
- Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code technologies.
- Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, VPNs, firewalls and routing.
- Experience managing relational databases and distributed systems, including backup and recovery.
- Scripting and automation experience using Bash and Python or Go.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure security, monitoring and operational best practices.
- Excellent troubleshooting skills and the ability to take ownership of complex technical issues.
- Experience with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) and wider GCP services is advantageous.
- Experience with Cassandra, ScyllaDB or other distributed database technologies is advantageous.
- Experience in PCI-DSS, ISO 27001 or SOC 2 compliance environments is advantageous.
- Experience with GitOps, ArgoCD or Kustomize is advantageous.
- Experience with Istio or other service mesh technologies is advantageous.
- Experience with Cloudflare, including DNS, WAF and Tunnels, is advantageous.
- Experience with Google Workspace administration and Apple device management is advantageous.
- Experience with disaster recovery planning, testing and implementation is advantageous.
- Experience with Prometheus, OpenTelemetry or cloud monitoring solutions is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Manage, maintain and optimise cloud infrastructure hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Administer Linux servers, virtual machines and containerised environments.
- Manage Kubernetes clusters, including Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
- Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code practices.
- Support production databases and distributed systems, including MySQL, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Redis and RabbitMQ.
- Maintain and improve backup, disaster recovery and business continuity processes.
- Configure and troubleshoot networking infrastructure, including VPNs, DNS, firewalls, load balancers and cloud networking.
- Implement monitoring, alerting and incident management processes.
- Manage operating system patching, security hardening and infrastructure upgrades.
- Support corporate IT infrastructure, including Google Workspace, device management and endpoint security.
- Contribute to infrastructure security and compliance, including PCI-DSS requirements.
- Identify opportunities to automate processes and modernise legacy infrastructure.
Technologies
- AWS
- ArgoCD
- Azure
- Bash
- Cloud
- Cassandra
- ElasticSearch
- GCP
- GitOps
- Incident Management
- Istio
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Kustomize
- Linux
- MySQL
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Python
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Security
- TCP/IP
- Terraform
- WAF
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We are recruiting for an established technology business specialising in payment infrastructure and transaction processing. This is a Senior Systems Administrator opportunity for a technically strong infrastructure professional who enjoys taking ownership of complex production environments and working with modern cloud technologies. The role is based in Fareham, Hampshire, with office-based work during probation and a minimum of three days onsite per week thereafter. The salary is £60,000–£70,000 plus benefits. Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
last updated 44 week of 2026