Software Infrastructure Engineer

Software Infrastructure Engineer
Location: Manchester
Salary: Up to £70,000 DOE

KO2’s client is an international, cutting-edge software engineering consultancy. They provide innovative solutions to some of the world’s most challenging system engineering challenges, across a range of industry sectors including Automotive, IoT, Meditech, Finance and Industrial Automation. With their office based in Central Manchester, just a short walk from Manchester Piccadilly station they are easily commutable by public transport from large parts of the Northwest region.

They are looking for software infrastructure engineer whose focus will be designing and delivering the infrastructure that enables them to deliver their technology stacks to customers.

Your key responsibilities:

• Support and enable the software engineering teams through delivery of scalable and distributed infrastructure able to be run in cloud and in on-prem contexts.
• Provide input to and evaluation of infrastructure technology choices.
• Be part of and/or support the infrastructure teams to deliver and operate solutions to customers in highly regulated environments.
• Mentoring software infrastructure engineers and helping to curate internal training and development programmes.

We are looking for candidates with the following experience:

• Strong Linux and Git skills
• Proven production experience deploying and managing infrastructure on at least one major Cloud Service provider, using tooling such as Terraform.
• Hands-on production experience developing, deploying, and operating Kubernetes clusters; experience running this on OpenStack is an advantage.
• Confident provisioning and deploying to bare-metal instances using tooling such as Ansible.
• Solid operational expertise in managing production environments, with knowledge of methodologies such as SRE considered a plus.
• A genuine interest in, and ideally hands-on involvement with, FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) communities and/or projects.

Apply today for this exciting, new opportunity within Software Infrastructure.