NOC Engineer

Company: Spectrum IT Recruitment
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Location: Bristol
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will help sustain and strengthen large-scale cloud infrastructure for essential national services. You’ll operate in a 24/7 NOC with a focus on proactive reliability, automation, and rapid incident resolution. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to improve monitoring, observability, and platform stability. The opportunity offers a challenging, hands-on environment where engineering-driven practices shape operations and cloud evolution.

Pay / Benefits

  • remote working (UK-based)
  • competitive salary
  • bonus
  • strong benefits package

Responsibilities

  • Monitor business-critical AWS production environments for performance and uptime
  • Own live incidents in a 24/7 rotating shift model and drive resolution
  • Investigate and resolve complex technical issues to restore services quickly
  • Develop automation to replace repetitive manual tasks and improve robustness
  • Enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling across the cloud estate
  • Collaborate with software, platform, cloud and security teams to raise reliability and standards
  • Participate in incident retrospectives and implement lessons learned
  • Manage containerised applications on Terraform and Docker

Key requirements

  • Production engineering, cloud operations, or NOC background with hands-on AWS experience
  • Proficiency with Linux administration
  • Experience with Terraform and Docker
  • Incident handling in live production environments
  • Scripting in Python, Bash or Go
  • Experience with observability/monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch)
  • Strong networking knowledge (DNS, TCP/IP, load balancing)
  • Drive to automate and improve operational excellence
  • Problem-solving under pressure
  • Cross-functional collaboration
  • Proactive and detail-oriented
  • AWS infrastructure
  • Terraform
  • Docker

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Posted: October 1st, 2026