Details:
- Salary: £450 - 550 - Day
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Day
- Location: Nationwide
- Date: 2 weeks ago
Description:
About This Role
We are looking for an experienced contractor to support the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise cloud-native services. The role will focus on Kubernetes-based platforms running on Microsoft Azure, including service mesh, application deployment, observability, security, and production support.
Key responsibilities:
* Build, configure, and support Kubernetes environments on Azure, including AKS.
* Deploy and manage Spring Boot applications in containerized environments.
* Work with Istio or similar service mesh technologies for traffic management, security, and observability.
* Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.
* Troubleshoot platform, networking, deployment, and application runtime issues.
* Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, and operations teams to meet governance and compliance requirements.
* Contribute to documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer.
Required experience:
* Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Azure cloud services.
* Experience with Istio, ingress, service discovery, and cloud-native networking.
* Good understanding of Spring Boot application deployment and runtime considerations.
* Familiarity with enterprise IT environments, including change control, security standards, incident management, and stakeholder governance.
* Experience with CI/CD tooling, container registries, monitoring, logging, and secrets management.
* Ability to work independently and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Desirable experience:
* Terraform, Helm, GitOps, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.
* Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Azure Monitor.
* Financial services or other regulated enterprise environments