Job title: Senior Golang DevOps Engineer
Job type: Contract - Daily rate
Emp type: Full-time
Industry: Non-IT Business Products and Services
Pay interval: Daily
Pay rate from: GBP £550.00
Pay rate to: GBP £600.00
Job published: 03-02-2026
Job ID: 50327

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)