Senior Systems Engineer

We have partnered with our client in their search for a Senior Systems Engineer to work remotely.

Responsibilities

• Design & build IaC: Own Terraform modules, state management, and environment baselines; implement policy-as-code and drift detection (e.g., with Spacelift).


• Automate operations: Use Ansible for golden image builds, patching, and configuration orchestration across Linux/Windows fleets.


• Secure the platform: Integrate and operate secrets managers (e.g., Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault); implement least-privilege RBAC across cloud and tooling.


• Own CI/CD workflows: Design, maintain, and troubleshoot pipelines in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps (multi-stage, approvals, artifact/versioning).


• Reliability & observability: Contribute to SLIs/SLOs, logging/metrics/alerting, capacity planning, and performance tuning.


• CMDB stewardship: Keep services and dependencies accurate in the CMDB; drive discovery, metadata quality, and change traceability.


• Governance & change: Participate in change control (CAB), incident response, and post-incident reviews; implement corrective actions via code.


• Documentation & enablement: Produce clear runbooks, diagrams, and "how-to" guides; mentor engineers on IaC, security, and operational best practice.


• Continuous improvement: Identify toil and remove it with automation; propose roadmap items that improve reliability, security, and developer velocity.

Skills Required

• Terraform at scale (modules, workspaces, remote state, policies, reviews).
  IaC tooling: Ansible (roles/playbooks) and Spacelift (or similar IaC orchestration).
  Secrets management: Azure Key Vault, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent; key rotation and secret scanning practices.
  CI/CD: GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps (pipelines, runners/agents, approvals, environment protections).
  RBAC: Designing and enforcing least-privilege access across cloud, repos, pipelines, and platforms.
  CMDB usage and data quality practices (service ownership, relationships, change traceability).
  Strong scripting (PowerShell and/or Python or Bash) and version control (Git, trunk-based or GitFlow).
  Linux / Unix experience in addition to Windows Servers and Endpoints.
  Excellent documentation-able to translate complex systems into simple, repeatable procedures.
  Nice to have
  Azure (preferred) and/or multi-cloud experience; networking fundamentals (VNet/VPC, DNS, VPN, WAF, load balancers).
  Policy-as-code (OPA/Conftest/Sentinel), artifact registries, SBOM, and supply-chain security.
  Observability stacks (Azure Monitor, PrometheGrafana, ELK) and incident management.
  Containers and orchestration (Docker, AKS/Kubernetes) and image hardening.
  Experience working within ISO 27001 / SOC 2 / NCSC guidance or similar UK/EU frameworks.

Education & Work Experience

• 5+ years in systems engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE roles.

Title Senior Systems Engineer

Location 100% remote

Client Industry Risk

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About Korn Ferry

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