Infrastructure Engineer - Performance Optimization
Contract - 6 Months with Potential extension
Type of role - Remote across UK
Day rate - £480 - £655 Per Day Inside IR35
We're hiring an Infrastructure Engineer to join a high-impact platform team within a globally scaled product company in the streaming space. This role sits within a newly formed Performance Optimization squad focused on improving infrastructure efficiency and reducing cost across thousands of services.
This is a hands-on engineering role where your work directly translates into measurable performance gains and cost savings at scale.
What you'll be doing
1. Drive infrastructure optimisation initiatives across large-scale Kubernetes environments (GKE)
2. Identify and implement improvements in resource utilisation (CPU, memory, workload placement)
3. Tune JVM-based services to enhance performance and efficiency
4. Build automation to roll out optimisation changes safely across production systems
5. Work closely with data to analyse usage patterns and drive cost-efficiency decisions
6. Contribute to reliability practices, including s...