Company: Spectrum IT Recruitment
Location: Southampton
Job Description:
Overview
In this role you will oversee the production environment, ensuring system availability and end-to-end health across cloud and on-premises platforms. You will build tools to streamline platform operations and push for higher reliability, performance, and faster delivery. You will collaborate with developers, participate in architectural discussions, and guide capacity planning and automated resilience. This is a hands-on, cross-functional position with a focus on scalable, distributed applications and proactive problem-solving to support mission-critical software.
Pay / Benefits
- Life Insurance – 4 x Annual Salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Bonus Scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Hybrid Working – 3 Days from Home
- GP Online Assistance Portal
- Monitor and interpret system and application metrics to fine-tune performance and troubleshoot issues
- Collaborate with developers to improve service quality through testing and structured release practices
- Engage in architectural discussions, manage platform operations, and contribute to capacity forecasting
- Design and implement automated solutions to build resilient, scalable systems
- Maintain focus on delivering new features while ensuring stability and meeting service level goals
- Oversee production environment and provide operational support for large-scale distributed applications
- Kubernetes cluster management experience; Kubernetes certifications are a plus
- Experience with Grafana Observability Suite (Loki, Mimir, Tempo)
- Experience with monitoring/automation tools: Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, Rundeck
- Configuration management: Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
- Cloud DevOps certifications (AWS, Google Cloud) or similar credentials
- Proficiency in at least one language (Python, Go, Java, C#) and scripting (Bash/PowerShell)
- Solid knowledge of AWS services (EC2, ECS, Lambda, DynamoDB) and infrastructure-as-code tools (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Strong CI/CD knowledge with Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or CircleCI
- Understanding of containers and microservices (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Experience with observability/monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, CloudWatch)
- Incident management experience and leading cross-functional resolution efforts
- Analytical and troubleshooting abilities
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Strong communication
- Kubernetes administration
- Grafana observability tools (Loki, Mimir, Tempo)
- Splunk, Datadog, PagerDuty, Rundeck
Posted: November 8th, 2026