Senior Systems Engineer, Production

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.

You'll be part of a globally distributed team, collaborating closely with engineers in North America and Europe, driving technical excellence across Clio's production environments.

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 what great DevOps looks like - continuous delivery, observability, feedback loops - and you 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, DevOps, 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 and Kubernetes.

• Experience with CI/CD systems such as Buildkite, GitHub Actions, etc.

• 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.

• Demonstrated interest in improving your craft by using AI.

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.

What you will find here:

Compensation is a key part of Clio's Total Rewards Program. We have developed a series of programs and processes to ensure we are creating fair and competitive pay practices that form the foundation of our human and high performing culture.

• Competitive, equitable salary with top tier health benefits and dental coverage.
• Hybrid work environment, with an expectation for local Clions to be in office minimum 2 days per week on our Anchor Days.
• Flexible time off policy.
• Pension contribution.
• Clioversary recognition program with special acknowledgement at 3, 5, 7, and 10 years.

The full salary range for this role is £70,200 to £94,800 GBP. Salary bands may vary based on location and local currency. The final offer will depend on individual experience and skill set.

Diversity, Inclusion, Belonging and Equity (DIBE) & Accessibility

Our team shows up as their authentic selves and is united by our mission. We are dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion. We pride ourselves on 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 believe that different perspectives, skills, backgrounds, and experiences result in higher performing teams and better innovation. We are committed to equal employment and 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.