Job Description
DevOps Engineer (Golang)
Rate: £300 per day Inside IR35
Duration: 6 Months (likely extended)
Location: Burgess Hill - Hybrid (3 days onsite per week)
Our client is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer with a strong infrastructure background and coding experience to support high-scale, event-driven distributed systems. The ideal candidate will have at least 6 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
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.
Essential Skills and Experience
1. Strong DevOps and infrastructure expertise.
2. Hands-on coding experience beyond simple scripts (GoLang preferred).
3. Deep understanding of event-driven architecture and cloud infrastructure.
4. Experience with CI/CD automation and GitHub-based workflows.
5. Pr...