Platform Engineer

🚀 Platform Engineer needed - 9 month contract - Remote - £300+ per day - Start ASAP - MUST work UK timezone and based in Europe🚀

My payments client is looking for a dedicated engineer with a drive to own and improve solutions across multiple projects.

Experience needed:

● Have experience with AWS and its services

● Have experience with running and managing Kubernetes

● Have experience with a service mesh, i.e, preferably Istio & Envoy

● Proficient in any programming language, we use Golang

● Have experience of implementing CI/CD pipelines and best practices around it

● Have management experience with SQL and NoSQL databases and distributed caches

● Care about writing clean, modular, and tested infrastructure-as-code (terraform).

Bonus points for

● Good knowledge of cloud network infrastructure design and troubleshooting

● Instrumentation experience with Datadog

● Load and chaos testing

● Security-first mindset and past experience in reviewing and improving security and best practices.

● Experience with FinOps