Engineering Lead
6 month rolling contract
£800-1000/day (umbrella)
Remote/UK
Overall Requirements:
- Highly technically astute and hands on
- Highly articulate with good communication skills across diverse groups, including stakeholders, engineers, business analysts, and teams
- Leadership through authority, presence, and impact: influencing organisational direction, stakeholders and up-skilling engineers
- Experienced Agile practitioner who will drive and maintain standards (direct experience in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe etc)
- Proven track record of working within and leading multi-functional teams
- Production Engineering experience
Relevant Technology experience:
- Hands-on experience of platform and systems architecture - modular monoliths, SOA/micro-services, including enabling tools and technologies (Spring Cloud, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, etc.); how to build cloud native applications from scratch and tackling monolithic system estates through the introduction of API's, microservices and gateways
- Cloud Native Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Istio Service Mesh
- Traditional Technologies: Bash/Shell, Groovy or Java, Unix/Linux, Jenkins, GitHub
- Building and maintaining distributed containerised platforms in production
- CI/CD: Hands-on experience of enabling technologies, principles, and practices of Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment (Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI or equivalent)
- JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization
- Distributed system design like microservices, Springboot
- Cloud infrastructure/services (particularly Google Cloud Platform)
- SQL coding
- Understanding of messaging Technologies and Caches
- Understanding of database technologies
- Payments architecture in global financial institutions
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