Job Description
Role: Software Engineer - Devops
Employment: Contract - Inside IR35
Location : Sheffield,UK - hybrid
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science or a related discipline.
• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 3 years in a leadership or technical lead role focused on DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE.
• Solid understanding of how the internet and HTTP work under the hood — DNS, TLS, load balancing, reverse proxies, service meshes, and API gateways — and how these come together in modern microservice architectures.
• Strong programming ability (structured and OOP) in one or more of: Java, JavaScript, Python, or Clojure.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana and InfluxDB; familiarity with time-series databases and data visualisation concepts.
• A proactive mindset — you spot problems, performance bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities before the...