Senior Engineer (Security Ckeared) in London

Backend Engineer (Security Cleared)
£525 a day Inside
6 Months

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.

In this role, you will be a senior member of the delivery capability, you will be primarily responsible for:

Documenting and demonstrating solutions by developing documentation, reviewing and delivering code.
Delivery of high-quality work results (structure, content, form)
Collaboration with team to brainstorm and create new products
Onboarding of new developers
Constant development and optimization of the local development environment
Support of the team with technical and business problems, knowledge distribution
Sketch solutions and prototypical implementation
Champion the agile development process with the team
Creation of technical user stories to implement technical and architectural measures
Implement framework/skeleton code to drive direction of the team
Make low level design decisions (or prepare solution variants for team decisions) and document them
Identification of necessary changes (technologies, tool selection, etc.) in coordination with the Devops Engineers and architects
Working with architects/designers to ensure design decisions are optimal and can be delivered by the team
Support developers by providing advice, coaching and educational opportunities
Leading estimation of user stories with the Team
Leading implementation of Automation (CI/CD) and test driven development ensuring high levels of automated testing

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
Jenkins
Azure DevOps
Atlassian stack
Strong AWS knowledge and EKS knowledge
Ideally a Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
Ideally knowledge of FE Javascript framework e.g. Reactl
Great attention to detail, organizational skills and an analytical mind

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.