Platform Development Engineer

Our OEM Client based in Manchester, is searching for a Platform Development Engineer to join their team, Inside IR35. This is a contract position with a proposed end date of 31st March 2027. Umbrella Pay Rate: £33.64 per hour. Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience Required: 4+ years’ experience in Unix OS and ideally recent experience in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash. 4+ years’ experience of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes experience. Strong experience of Site Reliability Engineering practices and principles. Strong experience in operational monitoring and dash-boarding for applications (ELK, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana). Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks (Docker, k8s). Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab). Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques. Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle. Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of engineers. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Collaborative skills - being open to pair programming and working closely with engineers in cross functional teams. Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible. Good automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tool. Experience of operating enterprise scale production systems alongside monitoring and telemetry practices (SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana). Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS). Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Experience Requested: Experience of Software Engineering with Go, Java, JavaScript or another language. Knowledge of Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues. Experience operating bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native microservice applications. Experience with database technologies such as MySQL or NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB)