Golang Engineer – Infrastructure Automation | Financial Services

Grid Dynamics; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Aviva Pension Scheme with matched contributions

BUPA private healthcare cover

State-of-the-art work equipment

Unlimited training budget

Fully expensed social events

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Golang Engineer to enhance automation across a large-scale infrastructure platform. This role offers the chance to work in a high-performance tech environment that emphasizes ownership and coding from the outset. Candidates should have expert proficiency in Golang and a solid understanding of systems challenges. The position is based in London, with hybrid work, requiring three days in the office weekly. Comprehensive benefits include a pension scheme and private healthcare.

Qualifications

• Expert-level proficiency in Golang, especially in systems or infrastructure-focused environments.
• Quickly get up to speed with unfamiliar codebases.
• Ability to communicate clearly with tech and non-tech stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Build and expand Golang-based workflows for provisioning servers.
• Write clean, testable, production-ready Go code.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams.

Skills

Expert-level proficiency in Golang

Strong knowledge of APIs

Concurrence

Infrastructure-as-code principles

Tools

OpenStack Ironic

Terraform

Ansible

GitLab

Job description

Golang Engineer – Infrastructure Automation | Financial Services

We’re hiring several Golang engineers at mid/senior and principal level to accelerate automation across a large‑scale, physical infrastructure platform. This is an opportunity to contribute to a cutting‑edge, high‑performance tech environment that operates with startup‑style agility and the stability of a well‑established organisation in the hedge‑fund space.

Expect real ownership, complex systems, and the chance to ship meaningful code from day one.

Responsibilities

• Build and expand Golang‑based workflows for provisioning bare‑metal servers at scale.
• Use the OpenStack Ironic Golang SDK to manage OS image deployments to physical machines.
• Write clean, testable, production‑ready Go code that integrates into a wider automation stack.
• Solve deep systems challenges across hardware, networking, and orchestration layers.
• Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams while working with high independence.

Requirements

• Expert‑level proficiency in Golang, especially in systems or infrastructure‑focused environments.
• Quickly get up to speed with unfamiliar codebases and start contributing with minimal hand‑holding.
• Strong knowledge of APIs, concurrency, and infrastructure‑as‑code principles.
• Communicate clearly and confidently across tech and non‑tech stakeholders.

Nice to have

• OpenStack Ironic or other provisioning platforms.
• Terraform, Vault, Ansible, or similar tooling.
• CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred).
• Temporal or Cadence for orchestrating workflows.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), increasing with length of service.
• Industry‑leading Aviva Pension Scheme, with matched pension contributions up to 10 %.
• Life assurance – 2 × annual salary.
• Best‑level BUPA private healthcare cover with pre‑existing condition coverage and free spouse/children add‑on.
• State‑of‑the‑art work equipment for a perfect WFH set‑up.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
• Unlimited training and learning budget.
• Premium expensed company and team‑building events, including monthly fully expensed social events.

This role is based in central London with a requirement to work in the office three days per week. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and live within a commutable distance to London.