DevOps Network Engineer

About Us

Clix is a UK-based technology company. We are a small, close-knit team who build and run bespoke solutions for internal products and customer smart room controls. The kind of infrastructure that other companies depend on. Our stack is Linux-first: Digital Ocean, NUC PCs (RMS), Proxmox VMs, Docker containers and Ansible-driven CD pipelines via SemaphoreUI. There is no large network operations team here, just a tight group who know what they are doing and get on with it.

The Role

We are hiring a DevOps Network Engineer to work alongside our lead DevOps in managing and extending our infrastructure. This is not a junior role, you will be managing everything from VPN topology and firewall rules to Bitbucket and Ansible automation. You will collaborate closely with decision-makers. If you want to spend your career raising tickets and waiting for approval chains, this is not the role. If you want to take ownership of a real network and automate it properly, read on.

What You Will Do

• Architect and operate our VPN infrastructure (Pritunl) across multiple sites
• Write, maintain, and test Ansible playbooks for deployments
• Integrate network automation into our CI/CD pipeline (SemaphoreUI), so changes are version-controlled, tested, and deployed consistently
• Monitor network health, oversee incident response, and lead post-incident reviews
• Maintain clear topology documentation and runbooks
• Be part of the on call rota for issues, especially networking.

What We Are Looking For

• Experience with headless Ubuntu servers using CLI commands.
• Full understanding of Docker and Docker Compose
• Experience with Multi-site VPN management with Pritunl or Openvpn
• Have used Ansible at an infrastructure-as-code level: roles, handlers, semaphore
• Proficient in bash scripting for automation and tooling
• 5 years of relevant experience in network engineering or DevOps with a strong networking focus
• Experience with Cisco & Netgear switches

Nice to Have

• Proxmox VE experience (VM and LXC management, SDN, bridge networking)
• Awareness of RabbitMQ and Redis networking behaviour in containerised environments
• SemaphoreUI Experience
• Documentation habit: topology diagrams, runbooks, change logs
• CCNA or CompTIA Network+ certification
• Crestron Experience

What We Offer

• £40,000
• Work from Home
• Pension
• Generous holiday with the ability to cash in additional days if not used.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Work from home

Experience:

• DevOps: 1 year (required)
• Nagios/Zabbix or Equivalent: 1 year (required)
• Elastic Cloud: 1 year (required)
• Kubernetes: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Remote