Senior Developer - Kubernetes

Different Technologies Pty Ltd.; City Of London; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing telecoms software provider is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join their team in the UK. The role involves building high quality software for a cloud-agnostic, micro-service platform. Candidates should have strong experience with Go, Python, Docker, and Kubernetes. The position offers excellent benefits, including 30 days of holiday, and values diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Benefits

30 days of holiday

Remote working

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience building mission-critical software applications.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker + Kubernetes).
• Sound understanding of agile software development best practices.

Responsibilities

• Build high quality software using cutting edge technologies.
• Provide technical leadership to junior engineers.
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software.

Skills

Go

Python

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Shell scripting

DevOps

Education

BS or MS degree in a relevant field

Tools

Gitlab pipelines

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Overview

Our client, an ingenious early stage VC backed next generation telecoms software provider, is looking for a Senior Software Developer to join their incredible team of 20-25 experienced, talented and enthusiastic multi-platform engineers. This role is for a Senior Software Developer to work on a next generation cloud-agnostic, micro-service network management platform. Remote Working - Based in the UK. Excellent salaries and benefits including 30 days holiday.

Job Accountabilities

• Build high quality software using cutting edge technologies in collaboration with other team members
• Own the work, add tests and metrics and participate to code reviews
• Help the team with defining architectures that will scale and encourage best practices
• Provide technical leadership to more junior engineers
• Design, develop, troubleshoot and debug software programs for databases, applications, tools, networks etc.
• Kubernetes cluster creation
• Kubernetes cluster maintenance and troubleshooting
• Creating Terraform based infrastructure
• Support SRE and developer teams
• Follow security practices on all infrastructure
• Maintain documentation and updating runbooks
• Incident detection, response and remediation
• Post incident reviews

Experience Needed

• 3+ years of industry experience building mission-critical software applications in a collaborative and team-focused environment
• Experience with Go, Python, or other modern programming languages. C++ knowledge a plus
• 2+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker + Kubernetes) and confidence operating cloud infrastructures
• Front-end development experience a plus
• DevOps skills, especially leveraging open source tools (Kibana, Prometheus, Grafana) a plus
• Sound understanding of agile software development best practices including CI/CD, testing, monitoring, alerting and documentation

• Being Cloud agnostic means not being able to use any managed Kubernetes service, so building your own Kubernetes is expected; experience with only managed Kubernetes would not be applicable for the role
• Kubernetes experience on at least one cloud
• Prometheus stack (Grafana, Prometheus, alertmanager)
• Kubernetes upgrade and maintenance experience
• Any logging infrastructure experience
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Shell/Python scripting
• Gitlab pipelines (or any other CI/CD)

Desirable experience

• Kubernetes security
• Kubernetes on-premise experience
• Kubernetes networking
• vSphere
• Packer
• Flux or ArgoCD
• Kubernetes installation with Kubespray
• East-West cluster

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with developing, debugging or designing of software applications or operating systems. Provide technical leadership to other software developers. Specify, design and implement modest changes to existing software architecture to meet changing needs.

Duties and tasks are varied and complex needing independent judgment. Fully competent in own area of expertise. May have project lead role and or supervise lower level personnel. BS or MS degree or equivalent experience relevant to functional area.

Our client recognises that their people are their strength and the diverse talents they bring to the workforce are directly linked to their success.

They are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion.