Job Title: Platform Development Engineer
Location: Manchester
Rate: £33.88ph via an Umbrella Company (Inside IR35) or £25.26ph on a PAYE basis
Employment Type: Contract (Currently financed until March 2027)
Hours: Standard 40 Hours Per Week
Reference: J37208529
Position Description
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
Essential
* Extensive experience in Unix OS and ideally recent experience in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash)
* Extensive experience of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes experience
* Strong experience of Site Reliability Engineering practices and principles
* Strong experience in operational monitoring and dash-boarding for applications (ELK, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)
* Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks (Docker, k8s)
* Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)
* Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques
* Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
* Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of engineers
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Collaborative skills - being open to pair programming and working closely with engineers in cross functional teams
* Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible
* Good automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools
* Experience of operating enterprise scale production systems alongside monitoring and telemetry practices (SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)
* Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS)
Desirable
* Experience of Software Engineering with Go, Java, JavaScript or another language
* Knowledge of Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues
* Experience operating bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native microservice applications
* Experience with database technologies such as MySQL or NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB)
THIS POSITION IS CONFIRMED INSIDE IR35
Our Clients are unable to provide sponsorship for Visas; therefore, only candidates eligible to work in the UK need apply!
No terminology within this advert is intended to unlawfully discriminate on the grounds of age, sex, race or disability and we welcome all applications.
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