SysOps Engineer in Preston

Systems Engineer – Fully Remote – Salary 40,000 to 50,000

Experience Required 3 to 8 Years

We are recruiting for an insurance organisation with a strong engineering culture looking for a Systems Engineer who enjoys problem solving, automation, and improving complex environments. This role suits someone with a background in Linux administration, cloud infrastructure, systems integration, and hands-on scripting. You will join a friendly, high-trust team working on meaningful projects that directly support business-critical services.

What you will work on

• Supporting and improving hybrid infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments

• Automating day to day processes using Python and Bash

• Building and maintaining infrastructure as code with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation and Ansible

• Enhancing monitoring, alerting and observability using tools like Zabbix, Grafana and ELK

• Deploying and supporting containerised workloads

• Troubleshooting complex systems and contributing to continuous improvement

• Collaborating with engineering teams to deliver stable and scalable solutions

What you need

• Three to eight years of experience in Linux systems engineering or infrastructure

• Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash

• Understanding of AWS or similar cloud platforms

• Experience with IaC tooling such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Puppet or Ansible

• Good knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling

• Ability to diagnose and resolve issues in hybrid environments

• A proactive mindset and willingness to automate everything that can be improved

Nice to have

• Experience working within regulated environments

• Exposure to CI and automation pipelines such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins

• Container experience across Docker or similar tools

What you get

• Fully remote working within the UK

• Salary between 40,000 and 50,000 depending on experience

• Supportive technical leadership and opportunities to grow your engineering capability

• Work that directly contributes to resilience and innovation within the insurance sector