Job Description

Senior Golang DevOps Engineer
6 Month Contract
Location: Remote
Rate: £550 - £600 per day (INSIDE IR35)

We are looking to recruit a Senior Golang DevOps Engineer for a leading software company. The DevOps Engineer will take ownership of complex system components and lead technical decisions within a cloud-native environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead technical design decisions and own complex services/components
• Work closely with engineering, product, and platform teams
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines
• Drive continuous delivery best practices
• Troubleshoot and resolve production issues using modern observability tooling

Required Experience

• Strong commercial experience with Golang and/or C#/.NET (ideally both)
• Excellent knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and system design
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Modern DevOps practices
• Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• CI/CD pipelines built with GitHub Actions
• Automated testing strategies
• Health checks and resilience patterns
• AWS services including ALB, IAM, and core networking
• Relational databases: Postgres and/or MSSQL on AWS (RDS and/or Athena)
• Monitoring and observability using Datadog
• Comfortable working autonomously in ambiguous environments
• Experience working in Agile teams (Scrum / Kanban)

Nice to Have

• Log aggregation configuration
• Automated testing frameworks (e.g. Playwright)