Developer Productivity Engineer (Contract)
A hands-on contract role improving how engineers build, test and ship software on a live trading platform, based in Belfast three days a week, paying up to £500 per day inside IR35.
About the Company
Our client is a global technology consultancy delivering engineering teams to a leading provider of energy trading software. The team responsible for venue connectivity is growing in Belfast and wants a dedicated engineer to make its delivery faster, safer and more dependable.
The Role
You will remove friction from the way the team develops and releases software, maintaining a secure, scalable developer platform on AWS and Kubernetes. Day to day that means modernising application configuration, building health reporting that tells the team at a glance whether a deployment is safe, and protecting business-critical data running in Kubernetes.
Key Responsibilities
- Modernise application configuration in line with Microsoft best practice.
- Design and implement deployment traffic lights that report service health and reduce manual intervention.
- Implement .NET health checks and common frameworks for reporting application health.
- Implement backup strategies for business-critical data using persistent volumes in Kubernetes.
- Improve build, test and release pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub.
- Support the platform on AWS, including EKS, DynamoDB and S3.
- Work with engineers across the team to identify and remove delivery bottlenecks.
What You'll Need
- Proficiency in .NET is essential, and the single most important thing we are looking for.
- Strong AWS expertise, including EKS, DynamoDB and S3, is essential.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Helm is essential.
- Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps and GitHub pipelines is essential.
- Demonstrated experience of on-premise to cloud migrations is essential.
- Familiarity with .NET health checks and application health reporting is highly advantageous.
- Experience implementing backup strategies with Kubernetes persistent volumes is a strong advantage.
- Experience with Rust is desirable.
Why Apply?
- Shape the developer platform behind a live trading platform.
- Up to £500 per day inside IR35.
- Based in Belfast three days a week.
- Clear, visible impact on how quickly and safely the team ships.
- Modern stack across .NET, AWS EKS, Kubernetes and Helm.
- A straightforward two-stage interview process.
Note For Applicants
All candidates must be currently residing in NI and have full UK Right to Work. Visa Sponsorship for this role is not provided.
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