Golang Engineer – Infrastructure Automation | Financial Services
We’re hiring several Golang engineers at mid/senior and principal level to accelerate automation across a large‑scale, physical infrastructure platform. This is an opportunity to contribute to a cutting‑edge, high‑performance tech environment that operates with startup‑style agility and the stability of a well‑established organisation in the hedge‑fund space.
Expect real ownership, complex systems, and the chance to ship meaningful code from day one.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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.
This role is based in central London with a requirement to work in the office three days per week. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK without sponsorship and live within a commutable distance to London.
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