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# software infrastructure engineer

- **Company:** KO2 Embedded Recruitment Solutions Ltd
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Salary:** £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Linux, OpenStack, Cloud Services, Ansible, Software Systems, Git, Kubernetes, Free and Open-Source Software, Terraform
- **Published:** August 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.ko2.co.uk/job/software-infrastructure-engineer/

## About the Role

* 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.

## Description

* 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.


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