SC cleared – Senior Engineer in London

Senior Engineer - Must have Security Clearance
6 months
£525 p/d INSIDE IR35
Hybrid - 2 days a week on site in London

The Role
My client is looking for a Senior Engineer in the Java/Microservices/AWS space to join our growing practice.

The role require a hands-on coder as well as providing technical leadership and support to the team(s) in order to manage and deliver successful solutions.

The Senior Engineer participates in the development process and leads the day-to-day work of the development engineers. What sets a Senior Engineer apart from an Engineer is the ability to lead and mentor more junior roles and the experience of work across a broader set of technologies and disciplines e.g. managing DevOps pipelines. The Senior Engineer will take the lead on working with architects to prototype new concepts to aid decision making and implementing framework code for the rest of the team to follow. First and foremost they are responsible for ensuring their code and the code of more junior members of the sprint team is delivered to a high level of quality with a focus on testing, performance and maintainability.

Specific Skills
In order to be successful in this role, you will have proven experience in and a solid understanding of most of the following:
- Delivering integration micro-service patterns using Java Springboot
- Applying SOLID principles and creating clean code
- Experience working with streaming data (e.g. Apache Kafka) and AWS native messaging/streaming features
- API specification/design and documentation
- Working with SQL and NoSQL data sources such as Postgres and Mongo
- Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in incremental delivery of software products.

Experience with DevOps tooling and application hosting services such as:
- Jenkins, Drone, AWS CodeCommit / Pipeline / Deploy
- Atlassian stack, Azure DevOps / Docker / Kubernetes / Function as a Service deployments
And the tooling used for these, such as:

1. Jenkins
2. Azure DevOps
3. Atlassian stack

- Strong AWS knowledge and EKS knowledge
- Ideally a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- Ideally knowledge of FE Javascript framework e.g. React
- Great attention to detail, organizational skills and an analytical mind

Education and Experience
- SC Cleared or Residency in the UK for the past 5 years (ideally British Passport Holder)
- Experienced in consulting and ability to cope with pressured environments.
- Senior/Lead Engineer experience
- Demonstrable professional software development experience over many full lifecycle deliveries
- Degree in Computer Science, Statistics or relevant field
- Proven experience as Senior Microservices Developer

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.