Platform Engineer / Software Engineer

Role: Platform Engineer / Software Engineer

Employment: Contract - Inside IR35

Location: Sheffield,UK - Hybrid 

Skills:

Looking for a Senior Platform/Software Engineer with strong experience in microservices development and DevOps practices, proficient in Java/Python/JavaScript, and well-versed in distributed systems, APIs, and modern architecture (DNS, load balancing, service mesh). Candidate should have hands-on experience with observability tools (Grafana), containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and cloud/platform engineering, along with strong capability in production support, incident management, and scalable system design.