System Engineer - Golang & GitHub (Inside IR35 Remote)

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

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.

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

• 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

• 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

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

• 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.