Software Engineer - #2158388
TESTQ Technologies
Date: 1 hour ago
City: Sheffield
Contract type: Contractor
Work schedule: Full day
Experience 5 to 7
Responsibilities
- Partner with Product Owners to understand requirements and break them down into deliverable work items
- Design and develop scalable resilient and observable microservices
- Own the complete software delivery lifecycle from design through deployment
- Deliver solutions within agreed timelines while maintaining engineering quality standards
- Provide production support and resolve complex incidents
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement permanent fixes for recurring issues
- Act as a technical consultant for platform users and application teams
- Collaborate with crossfunctional technology teams and stakeholders
- Manage technical debt and drive platform modernization initiatives
- Maintain strong security and vulnerability management practices
- Mentor junior engineers and promote engineering best practices
- Contribute to DevOps Platform Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering initiatives
- Continuously improve platform reliability performance and supportability
To be successful in this role you should have
- Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
- 8 years of Software Engineering experience
- At least 3 years in a Technical Lead DevOps Platform Engineering or SRE role
- Strong understanding of Internet and Web technologies including HTTP DNS TLS and Load Balancing
- Strong knowledge of Reverse Proxies Service Meshes and API Gateways
- Experience designing Microservices Architectures
- Strong programming skills in Java JavaScript Python or Clojure
- Experience with Monitoring and Observability platforms such as Grafana and InfluxDB
- Understanding of TimeSeries Databases and Data Visualization concepts
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
- Experience managing and resolving critical production incidents
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Ability to work effectively in globally distributed teams
- Strong learning mindset and ability to quickly adopt new technologies
- Experience mentoring engineers and driving knowledge sharing
- Strong LinuxUnix administration knowledge is desirable
- Experience with KVM or VMware virtualization is beneficial
- Experience with AWS GCP or Azure cloud platforms is advantageous
- Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes is preferred
Skills
- Mandatory Skills : Azure DevOps, Java
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