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Platform Development Engineer

Contechs
Manchester, United Kingdom
2 weeks ago
£34 ph

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£34 ph

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
20 May 2026 (2 weeks ago)
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Position Title: Platform Development Engineer

Duration: Contract

Location: Manchester

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

Essential:

4+ years' experience in Unix OS and ideally recent experience in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash)

4+ years' experience of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes experience

Strong experience of Site Reliability Engineering practices and principles

Strong experience in operational monitoring and dash-boarding for applications (ELK, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)

Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks (Docker, k8s)

Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)

Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques

Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle

Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of engineers

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Collaborative skills - being open to pair programming and working closely with engineers in cross functional teams

Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible

Good automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools

Experience of operating enterprise scale production systems alongside monitoring and telemetry practices (SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)

Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS)

Desirable:

Experience of Software Engineering with Go, Java, JavaScript or another language

Knowledge of Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues

Experience operating bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native microservice applications

Experience with database technologies such as MySQL or NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB)Why work through Contechs?

Contechs is a leading Automotive, Design, Engineering, Technology and Innovation Recruitment Consultancy. Founded in 1997, with an inhouse Contractor Care Team to support all external employees, acts as an employment agency for permanent and contract recruitment.

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