At a Glance
- Tasks: Support and maintain Linux infrastructure while migrating to AWS and automating deployment.
- Company: Leading audio streaming tech company with a global impact.
- Benefits: £75,000 salary, remote work, 25 days holiday, and international travel opportunities.
- Other info: Flexible role with excellent career growth in a high-performance media infrastructure team.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and work on high-scale broadcast and streaming projects.
- Qualifications: Strong Linux experience, knowledge of IAC tools, and ability to handle live production environments.
Our client is a leading audio streaming technology company, enabling global distribution and monetisation of live and on-demand content for major media networks, broadcasters, and government agencies. Delivering billions of listening hours annually, their intelligent infrastructure powers some of the most recognisable names in radio, podcasting, and live event broadcasting.
They are now hiring a Linux DevOps Engineer to support a hybrid migration journey from on-premise data centres into AWS and to help maintain 24/7 streaming services at scale.
Key Responsibilities- Support and maintain Linux-based infrastructure across two UK data centres
- Assist in migrating applications and services into a hybrid cloud environment (AWS)
- Use Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible) to manage environments
- Help automate deployment pipelines and ensure system observability
- Act as escalation point for infrastructure-related support tickets
- Collaborate with engineering and customer success teams to support streaming platform uptime
- Strong Linux systems engineering and troubleshooting experience
- Confident with IAC tools like Terraform and Ansible
- Understanding of hybrid environments (on-prem + AWS cloud)
- Previous exposure to live production, broadcast, or 24/7 service environments
- Comfortable with occasional out-of-hours maintenance and data centre access
- Driving licence required due to physical server access needs
- Proactive, flexible and calm under pressure
- Linux
- Terraform
- Ansible
- AWS (Hybrid migration underway)
- Monitoring & observability tooling
- £75,000 base salary
- Time off in lieu for any out-of-hours work
- 25 days holiday
- Fully remote working (must be within travel distance to London)
- Dynamic and varied role in a high-performance media infrastructure team
- Opportunity for international travel (e.g., Poland sites)
- Involvement in high-scale broadcast and streaming environments
- Culture & Intro - with Managing Director
- Technical Interview - with Head of Infrastructure
- Final In-Person - with key team members
We think you need these skills to ace Remote Linux DevOps Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne
Linux Systems Engineering
Troubleshooting
Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
Terraform
Ansible
AWS
Hybrid Cloud Environments
