Senior Systems Engineer, Production

Summary: We are currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer, Production to join our Platform Team. This remote role is based in the United Kingdom
, with a preference for candidates located in or near London for occasional in-person collaboration.

What your team does: The Systems Engineering team at Clio builds and operates the systems that power all of our cloud-based products and services. We design, automate, and maintain the infrastructure that enables our global teams to deliver reliable, secure, and scalable solutions to thousands of customers every day. Our mission is to make deploying and operating software effortless and safe.

We focus on automation, observability, and reliability, ensuring every engineering team at Clio can move faster and with confidence.

Who you are: You’re an experienced AWS engineer who thrives on building infrastructure that just works — scalable, secure, and self-healing. You’re obsessed with automation, love digging into cloud architecture, and enjoy mentoring others on best practices. You understand great Dev Ops — continuous delivery, observability, feedback loops — and know how to turn those principles into reality. You communicate clearly, solve problems creatively, and bring both curiosity and calm to complex challenges.

What you’ll work on:

• Design, build, and maintain the AWS infrastructure supporting Clio’s production environments.
• Implement and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ensuring reproducibility and compliance.
• Collaborate with developers to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and overall developer experience.
• Enhance observability and reliability, refining alerting, monitoring, and incident response.
• Lead cloud optimization projects, improving performance, cost efficiency, and security posture.
• Mentor and guide team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous learning.
• Partner with Security, Dev Ops, and Product Engineering teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant systems.

What you may have:

• Deep experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS infrastructure at scale.
• Strong expertise with Terraform and infrastructure automation.
• Solid understanding of AWS services such as ECS/EKS, RDS, Lambda.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Proficiency in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Buildkite, Git Hub Actions.
• Familiarity with Linux systems administration, networking, and observability tooling.
• Coding skills in Bash, Python, Ruby, or Go.
• Excellent communication and documentation abilities, with a focus on knowledge sharing and team collaboration.

Serious bonus points if you have:

• Experience with Kubernetes (EKS) in production environments.
• Expertise in AWS cost management, scaling, and multi-account strategies.
• Prior experience in platform engineering or developer productivity teams.

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive, equitable salary with top-tier health benefits and dental coverage.
• Hybrid work environment, with expectation for local Clions to be in office minimum 2 days per week on our Anchor Days.
• Flexible time off policy.
• £70,200 to £94,800 GBP salary range for this role.
• Pension contribution.
• Clioversary recognition program.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility: Our team shows up as their authentic selves, and are united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion. We pride ourselves in building and fostering an environment where our teams feel included, valued, and enabled to do the best work of their careers, wherever they choose to log in from.

We are committed to equal employment and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply. Clio provides accessibility accommodations during the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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