Senior Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Location: Manchester - Hybrid (Once in 2 weeks)
Contract Type: 6 months

A major tech organization is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong SRE expertise to lead a critical migration of services between Kubernetes environments. You'll combine software engineering skills, a deep understanding of cloud-native operations, and a passion for automation to ensure a smooth, reliable transition.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and refactor applications for Kubernetes using containerization best practices.
• Own service reliability and performance during migrations, driving zero-downtime and phased rollout strategies.
• Build automation to streamline migration, testing, validation, and operations (Infrastructure-as-Code).
• Architect scalable, observable systems tailored for Kubernetes.
• Enhance monitoring, logging, alerting, and lead incident responses during migrations.
• Solve complex technical challenges and optimize migration workflows.
• Mentor engineers and collaborate closely across technical and product teams.
  
  

• Strong software engineering and SRE background.
• Expertise in Java and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Proven success leading large-scale service migrations.
• Solid experience in observability, incident management, and infrastructure automation.

This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it to raghav. Manrai @ (url removed)

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.