Description
This is a great opportunity for a DevOps Engineer with experience of working with Containerization & Container Orchestration at scale (Kubernetes), Cloud Infrastructure Automation (AWS strongly preferred) to join a new team working on a new global platform to integrate existing and new services. 12 month contract at £550 to £575 per day outside IR35. Remote working with occasional London travel (circa once a month).
The ideal candidate for this role will have a wide breadth of experience across the entire software stack, as well as deep expertise in at least one technology from each of the following groups:
Infrastructure:
- Containerization & Container Orchestration at Scale (ie Kubernetes)
- Container Networking & Distributed Service Meshes (eg, Istio, Linkerd)
- Cloud Infrastructure Automation (AWS strongly preferred) (eg, CDK, Crossplane)
- Linux System Administration
Software Development:
- Distributed Systems Development (eg asynchronous communication patterns, consensus algorithms, distributed transactions)
- Services Programming (eg, Go-lang, Java, Kotlin, Scala, Python, Ruby)
- Systems Programming (eg, C, C++, Rust)
In addition, your technical expertise should match well to the following:
- Deep understanding of distributed systems in Kubernetes
- Hands-on experience with at least one IaC tool (eg CDK, Terraform, Crossplane)
- Experience with the development and operation of high throughput, low-latency systems
- Hands-on experience with automating development workflow pipelines (CI/CD)
- Operational experience (ie, on-call rotation, incident response)
- Ability to collaborate effectively with remote peers across disparate geographies and timezones
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with particular emphasis on technical documentation (including diagramming)
- Strong CS fundamentals
For further information contact Andrew Medhurst at Inspire People or apply today for immediate response.
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