About Beeks

Beeks Group is a leading managed cloud provider exclusively within financial markets. Our Infrastructure-as-a-Service model is optimised for low-latency private cloud compute, connectivity and analytics, providing the flexibility to deploy and connect to exchanges, trading venues and public cloud for a true hybrid cloud experience.

Founded in 2011, Beeks Group is listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE: BKS) and has enjoyed continued growth each year. Beeks Group now employs over 100 team members across the globe and have an international network of over thirty data centres.

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Systems Automation Engineer to join us at our unique Head Office in Renfrew which includes our state-of-the-art gym with weekly circuit training, a personal trainer and yoga classes as well as the Beeks Bar or weekly masseuse to help you unwind!

About the Role

As a Systems Automation Engineer, you will play a pivotal role within our growing SysAdmin team, collaborating closely with the team and other departments to drive an ‘automation-first’ approach across the business.

Your primary responsibility will be to identify operational and process inefficiencies that can be improved through automation. You will propose and implement solutions to enhance efficiency, reliability, and output quality, while overseeing the rollout and adoption by relevant teams.

This role requires a strong understanding of modern automation tools, scripting, and systems integration, along with excellent collaboration and communication skills to take ownership of these optimised workflows.

Responsibilities

• Work across departments to identify, design, propose and implement automation for new and existing operations
• Proactively work with the relevant teams to align automation efforts with business needs
• Implement and maintain solutions as code using version control to ensure configuration consistency
• Take ownership of the existing automation for product deployments and ensure scalability and consistency between environments while allowing for client specific customisations
• Automate and maintain several custom and standard flavours of OS to be rolled out to VMWare, OpenNebula and MaaS
• Work closely with the SysAdmin and Security team to support automation efforts for system maintenance and security
• Provide documentation and training to ensure smooth adoption of automation solutions

Required Experience

• Ansible
• Packer
• Scripting (Bash, Python and Powershell)
• Linux
• Git
• Power Automate
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities

Desirable Experience

• Windows
• Terraform
• Atlassian
• Server Virtualisation
• MaaS
• Knowledge of DevOps principles and practices.
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• System Administration Experience

What we offer

Compensation & Benefits

• A competitive salary
• A unique and highly rewarding Share Options scheme
• Highly competitive pension scheme
• EV salary exchange scheme
• Life assurance cover
• Investment in Training
• Family cover Private Health Insurance

Lifestyle

• Hybrid working (3 days in the office / 2 days at home)
• Flexible work hours
• 33 days annual leave

Recruitment Process

• 15-20min Screening Call
• ~1hr Technical Interview
• Offer issued and start date agreed

This is a full-time position

We are an Equal opportunity employer