Summary: The role of DevOps Engineer (Golang) involves supporting high-scale, event-driven distributed systems with a focus on infrastructure performance and coding. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation, with a strong emphasis on coding in GoLang. The position requires a hybrid working arrangement, with three days on-site each week. The contract is for six months, with the possibility of extension.

Key Responsibilities:

• Understand and modify code to enhance infrastructure performance.
• Work on high-scale distributed systems involving Kafka, Cassandra, and Postgres, including load balancing.
• Build custom command-line tooling for infrastructure decommissioning activities.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines as code in a GitHub environment.
• Implement and optimise containerisation strategies.
• Monitor large-scale distributed systems using Open Telemetry, Splunk, Prometheus, and Grafana.

Key Skills:

• Strong DevOps and infrastructure expertise.
• Hands-on coding experience beyond simple scripts (GoLang preferred).
• Deep understanding of event-driven architecture and cloud infrastructure.
• Experience with CI/CD automation and GitHub-based workflows.
• Proficiency in containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong knowledge of observability tools (Open Telemetry, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana).

Salary (Rate): £300

City: Burgess Hill

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT