Golang Engineer - Infrastructure Automation | Financial Services

Grid Dynamics
Greater London, UK
2 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) OpenStack Ansible Vault (Revision Control System) Concurrency Gitlab Infrastructure Automation Frameworks Terraform Golang

Job description

  • Build and expand Golang-based workflows for provisioning bare-metal servers at scale.
  • Use the OpenStack Ironic Golang SDK to manage OS image deployments to physical machines.
  • Write clean, testable, production-ready Go code that integrates into a wider automation stack.
  • Solve deep systems challenges across hardware, networking, and orchestration layers.
  • Collaborate with platform and infrastructure teams while working with high independence.

Requirements

  • Expert-level proficiency in Golang, especially in systems or infrastructure-focused environments.
  • Quickly get up to speed with unfamiliar codebases and start contributing with minimal hand-holding.
  • Strong knowledge of APIs, concurrency, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
  • Communicate clearly and confidently across tech and non-tech stakeholders.

Nice to have

  • OpenStack Ironic or other provisioning platforms.
  • Terraform, Vault, Ansible, or similar tooling.
  • CI/CD pipelines (GitLab preferred).
  • Temporal or Cadence for orchestrating workflows.

Benefits & conditions

  • 25 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), increasing with length of service.
  • Industry-leading Aviva Pension Scheme, with matched pension contributions up to 10 %.
  • Life assurance - 2 × annual salary.
  • Best-level BUPA private healthcare cover with pre-existing condition coverage and free spouse/children add-on.
  • State-of-the-art work equipment for a perfect WFH set-up.
  • Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
  • Unlimited training and learning budget.
  • Premium expensed company and team-building events, including monthly fully expensed social events.

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