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System Engineer - Inside IR35 - Remote - Golang

Key Information

Role: Senior Systems Engineer - GitHub Enterprise Tooling & Operations
Location: Fully remote (option to visit London office if preferred)
Rate: £525 - £550 per day (Inside IR35 - confirmed)
Contract Length: 6 months
Start Date: ASAP (cannot consider notice periods longer than 2 weeks)
Working Arrangements: Fully remote

Role Summary

This position sits within the Engineering Enablement function and focuses on designing, building, and managing core services for GitHub Enterprise at scale. You will automate repository lifecycle processes, enforce organisation-wide policies, and integrate GitHub with other enterprise systems.

The ideal engineer will be highly skilled in Go, experienced with large-scale GitHub Enterprise environments, and passionate about automation, infrastructure tooling, and emerging technologies such as Generative AI.

Skills & Experience Needed

? Essential Skills (Must-Haves)

Golang / Programming

Golang (Go) is an absolute must - primary language for automation tooling

GitHub Enterprise

Deep hands-on experience with GitHub Enterprise (actual administration, not just usage)
Experience developing GitHub Apps, GitHub Actions, GitHub integrations
Strong experience with GitHub REST/GraphQL APIs
Automation for:
Org/repo provisioning
Repository lifecycle management
Policy & compliance enforcement

Cloud & Infrastructure

Strong understanding of Terraform (more important initially than Kubernetes)
General cloud experience - AWS or Azure
Solid understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Automation-first mindset

Operational / SRE Background

Previous experience in Site Reliability Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering
Knowledge of observability, monitoring, and operational tooling

API Integration

Strong understanding of REST & GraphQL APIs
Ability to build and maintain automation against internal/external APIs

Please get in touch and apply if you are seeking an exciting new contract opportunity and meet the above requirements.

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