DevOps Engineer (Golang)

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

• 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).

How to Apply

To be considered for this role, please submit your updated CV.

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements