At Brandwatch, a Cision product, we don’t just follow trends—we create them. Our people are at the heart of how we help brands around the world be seen and understood. We combine pioneering AI-driven consumer intelligence with industry-leading social media tools to empower our clients with the insights they need to make real-time, data-driven decisions.
Here, your voice matters. We foster a culture where innovation thrives, and ideas are transformed into action. Whether you’re analyzing AI-powered insights, building meaningful relationships with clients, or pushing the boundaries of what’s possible, your contributions will shape the future of social engagement.
Join us and be part of a team that’s redefining how brands connect with their audiences. Your growth is our success, and together, we’ll drive the conversations of tomorrow while creating authentic connections that matter.
Empower your impact at Brandwatch. Be seen, be understood, be you.
The Data Centre and Networks (DCN) team at Brandwatch look after servers, switching and routing hardware to maintain tens of thousands of CPU cores, terabytes of memory and petabytes of storage used to provide Brandwatch services to customers. The DCN team are responsible for the whole data centre stack up to Kubernetes. You will work closely with the data infrastructure team who look after our big data systems and our Developer platform and SRE teams that provide services on top of Kubernetes and monitoring infrastructure. We are open to remote working, if you are a highly experienced systems engineer, we can drop the need to visit UK data centres regularly, but the entire team are expected to help out with data centre work as required. Data Center is located in London. Must live within 2-hour drive.
Our Tech Stack:
- We don’t expect you to know everything about the systems we use, but you will be exposed to and have a chance to learn about the following:
- Linux (mostly Debian)
- Juniper networks
- Virtualization (libvirt/kvm)
- Foreman
- Puppet
- PowerDNS
- NGINX
- Kubernetes
Your role will include:
- Deploying/maintaining Kubernetes clusters
- Full lifecycle management of all hardware in all data centres
- Linux provisioning and rebuilds
- Responding to monitoring alarms and tracking performance metrics
- Diagnose and fix hardware and software issues
- Actioning and resolving tickets from other Brandwatch engineers.
- Dealing with suppliers, checking in deliveries, processing RMAs and managing stock
- Working with onsite data centre staff to resolve environment and power issues
- Some Travelling between London Hayes and Maidstone (full EU driving license required)
You will have:
- A desire to learn, the systems we use will change and evolve over time.
- Experience of systems administration, site reliability engineering, DevOps, IT support
- Experience with a distributed system (ideally Kubernetes)
- Installed and used at least one of Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Illumos or NetBSD
- Ability to script or program in any language
- Ability to lift 10 kg (racking servers if needed)
If you’ve found our job opportunity interesting but you don’t meet all of the requirements, it’s still worth applying. We’d love to hear from you!
At Cision, we're revolutionizing the way brands connect with their audiences. We provide PR, marketing, and social media professionals with the tools they need to excel in today's data-driven world, enabling them to see and be seen, understand and be understood by the audiences that matter most. Our deep expertise, exclusive data partnerships, and award-winning products, including CisionOne, Brandwatch, and PR Newswire, empower over 75,000 companies and organizations, including 84% of the Fortune 500, to achieve their goals.
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