🚀 Senior Software Engineer – Contract

📍 Manchester (Flexible Onsite/Remote)

🗓️ 6-Month Contract

💷 £675/day (Inside IR35)

About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join a pivotal migration project — moving critical services between Kubernetes environments in a cloud-native, DevOps-driven landscape. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of a high-impact engineering transformation. You’ll combine core software engineering skills with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to deliver automation, observability, and resilience across our systems.

What You’ll Do

• 🚢 Lead migration efforts for services running in Kubernetes, ensuring smooth rollouts with zero-downtime strategies.
• 🧠 Design and build scalable, reliable software, optimized for performance in cloud-native environments (AWS + Kubernetes).
• 🔧 Automate processes to reduce toil and accelerate delivery using Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD best practices.
• 📊 Implement observability through enhanced logging, metrics, and alerts to maintain service health throughout migration.
• 🔍 Troubleshoot complex systems and lead incident response, root cause analysis, and iterative improvements.
• 💬 Collaborate across teams, sharing expertise and mentoring peers in Kubernetes, SRE, and scalable architecture.

Must-Have Experience

✅ Strong commercial experience with Java

✅ Proven hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and AWS

✅ Background in site reliability engineering, automation, or large-scale migrations

✅ Deep understanding of Agile DevOps environments

✅ Strong communication and stakeholder collaboration skills

Why This Role? This is a rare opportunity to join a global tech leader, lead a high-impact launch, and work on a product with visibility at the highest levels of the business. You’ll step into a pivotal role with autonomy, support, and the chance to shape a product millions will use.

Interested?

Apply now or message us directly if you're ready to jump in and help steer this exciting product over the finish line—and beyond.