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 

–          Two stage interview process with no technical test, just a technical discussion