Senior Software Engineer

Penta Consulting are a technology service provider and leading outsourced partner helping to deliver professional and managed solutions across EMEA. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong experience in Go, Kubernetes, and platform automation to design, develop, and support software that automates Kubernetes\-based managed services and SaaS platforms. **Key Responsibilities** * Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes Operators, controllers, CRDs, and APIs using Go. * Develop automation for provisioning, upgrades, scaling, recovery, and lifecycle management of platform services. * Build reliable, secure, and scalable Kubernetes\-native solutions following industry best practices. * Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and release processes. * Collaborate with Platform Engineering, SRE, Cloud Operations, and Architecture teams to implement platform standards and automation. * Improve observability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency across cloud and on\-premises environments. * Mentor engineers and contribute to technical leadership, design reviews, and engineering standards. **Required Skills \& Experience** * 8\+ years' experience in Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Automation. * Strong hands\-on development experience with Go (Golang). * Deep understanding of Kubernetes, including Operators, Controllers, CRDs, RBAC, and Controller Runtime patterns. * Experience supporting production Kubernetes environments. * Strong knowledge of distributed systems, automation, CI/CD, Helm, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code. * Experience with Linux, containers, networking, storage, and Kubernetes troubleshooting. * Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor other engineers. **Preferred Skills** * Operator SDK, client\-go, controller\-runtime. * Terraform, Argo CD, Flux, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps. * EKS, AKS, GKE, Rancher, or other enterprise Kubernetes platforms. * Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, CloudWatch, or Azure Monitor. * Kubernetes security, policy\-as\-code, service mesh technologies, and reliability engineering practices. **Certifications** * CKA, CKAD, CKS * Terraform Associate * AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud DevOps certifications