Contract
Platform Development Engineer
Contechs Consulting
Manchester
Posted: 20 May 2026 (Yesterday)
Closing date: 19 June 2026
Ref: 225138609
Order Ref: (phone number removed)
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.
How to Apply
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