Senior Developer - Kubernetes

TN United Kingdom; London; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An ingenious early stage VC backed telecom software provider is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join a dynamic team of talented engineers. In this role, you will work on a cutting-edge cloud-agnostic micro-service network management platform. You will be responsible for building high-quality software, providing technical leadership, and ensuring best practices in software development. This innovative firm values diversity and inclusion, offering excellent salaries and benefits, including 30 days of holiday. If you are passionate about technology and ready to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

30 days holiday

Remote working

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in building mission-critical software applications.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker + Kubernetes).

Responsibilities

• Build high quality software using cutting edge technologies.
• Provide technical leadership to junior engineers and maintain documentation.

Skills

Go

Python

C++

DevOps

Agile Software Development

Shell/Python Scripting

Education

BS or MS degree in relevant field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Gitlab

Kibana

Prometheus

Grafana

vSphere

Packer

Job description

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 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

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 language. C++ knowledge a plus
• 2+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker + Kubernetes) and confidence operating cloud infrastructures
• 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 therefore build own Kubernetes - experience with only managed Kubernetes would not be applicable for the role
• Kubernetes experience on at least one cloud
• Kubernetes upgrade and maintenance experience
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Shell/Python Scripting
• Gitlab pipelines (or any other CI/CD)
• vSphere
• Packer
• Flux or ArgoCD
• Kubernetes installation with Kubespray

As a member of the software engineering division, you will assist in defining and developing software for tasks associated with the 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.