Platform Development Engineer

Our OEM Client based in Manchester, is searching for a Platform Development Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position with a proposed end date of 31st March 2027.

Umbrella Pay Rate: £33.64 per hour.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required:

• 4+ years’ experience in Unix OS and ideally recent experience in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash.
• 4+ years’ 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 tool.
• 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 Skills, Knowledge and Experience Requested:

• 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).