Golang Job: Platform Engineer

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Company

SoCode
United Kingdom

Location

Remote Position
(From Everywhere/No Office Location)

Job type

Full-Time

Golang Job Details

Job details

Posted 12 January 2023
Salary£600 - 850 per day + 6 Months - OutsideIR35
LocationGreater London
Job type Contract
DisciplineDevOps & Cloud Engineering
ReferenceDO005

Platform Engineer - Contact (6m) - OUTSIDE IR35 - Full Remote - Up to £850/day

Job description

Platform Engineer – Outside IR35 – 6 Months - Fully Remote up to £850/day


Heavily invested media scale up are looking for a DevOps engineer to join their UK R+D team. Working within their cloud team you will be working to continue to develop their cloud operations.


**Candidates must have experience setting up K8s platform from scratch - with Terraform experience**


  • Moving our EC2 hosted applications to containers and Kubernetes as part of a product team
  • Working with other platform engineers to build patterns and systems to support products
  • Help improve platform and system observability via our Grafana, Tempo, Loki and

Prometheus stack

  • Working as part of an autonomous, self-organising platform team
  • Provide operational support for a large cloud-based distributed system


What’s on offer:

  • Daily rate up to £850/day Outside IR35
  • 6 Month Contract
  • Option to go permanent at the end
  • Full remote working


About you:

  • Autonomous and able to manage multiple projects simultaneously with minimal guidance
  • Write clean well composed and tested infrastructure as code
  • Believe in CD and patterns such as GitOps
  • Apply DevOps and SRE principles whilst working in platform and product teams


REQUIRED Experience:

  • Experience with cluster orchestration (Kubernetes, ECS, Nomad)
  • Proficiency with Golang, Python OR any other programming language
  • Familiarity with GitOps tooling such as Flux2 or ArgoCD
  • Experience with advanced monitoring systems
  • Experience with telemetry systems such as OpenTelemetry, Tempo, ZipKin, Jaeger, Datalog
  • Experience with Terraform
  • Significant exposure to cloud systems, preferably AWS
  • Experience with any modern reverse proxies/ meshes powered by them (Istio, Envoy, Gloo)


*IF you only have 90% of the above then please still apply*


Next Steps:

  • Click apply OR email [email protected]
  • Two stage interview process with no technical test, just a technical discussion