Platform Development Engineer
| Job Type | Temporary / Contract |
| Location | Crewe |
| Area | Crewe, UK |
| Sector | Engineering |
| Salary | Market related |
| Currency | GBP |
| Start Date | |
| Advertiser | Jack Slater |
| Job Ref | 6661 |
| Job Views | 4 |
- Description
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).
