Developer Productivity Engineer

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., * 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.

• 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.

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., * 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.

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.