software infrastructure engineer

• 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.

• 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.

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.