A renowned brand with a fantastic history, this company was founded over 200 years ago and have grown to have a global presence in 46 countries. They are going through a huge digital and cloud transformation
Job Role:
You will be working with the global head of engineering and the architecture team to understand strategic direction, then planning and leading the implementation of desired functionality with their team.
All deliveries will be hosted in an Azure environment with a strong emphasis on performance, automation, monitoring and logging, and security, and therefore candidates need to possess a solid understanding and extensive experience of working in a modern Cloud environment including DevOps and CI/CD processes.
Traditionally the technical work has been undertaken by third party vendors, you will be steering and leading them through the cloud transformation.
Key Tasks Include:
- Design and development of highly performant public facing REST API’s and associated system integrations in an Azure hosted environment
- Documentation of API’s conforming to the Open API 3.x framework
- Leading and steering the direction of a small, dedicated team, including building team alignment, code reviews, design workshops, story/ticket elaboration, etc
- Review existing legacy implementations and input from the architecture team, and building appropriate solutions on the new platform following best practices
- Provide recommendations of new technologies or tools to ensure that the new platform is developed, tested and hosted in the most secure, scalable manner
- Provide guidance on tools and recommendations for the automation of testing and deployments of all deliverables
Key Skills Include:
- C#, Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Service Bus, Azure Function Apps, Azure APIM, Azure Front Door, Auth0, WebSockets
- Strong development experience in C# and .NET core technologies built up across a range of different enterprise-grade projects
- Experience of designing API’s from the ground up which conform as much as possible to REST principles in terms of Resources, Sub Resources, Responses, Error Handling
- Experience of API design and documentation using Open API 3.x / YAML / Swagger
- Hands on experience of development, deployment and support within an Azure Environment
- Development of Azure functionality that utilises the best in breed security and authorisation concepts
- Creation and maintenance of build and release automation (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps
- Performance tuning of APIs and Azure Functions
- Ability and willingness to learn quickly and adapt to a fast-changing environment, with a strong interest in continuous improvement and delivery.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a good understanding of the best practices and the importance of Test Automation processes
- Some familiarity with AWS, and especially ElasticSearch would be beneficial but not mandatory.
Comprehensive Benefits:
- Discretionary bonus
- Office closure (guaranteed between 25th Dec – 2nd Jan)
- 25 days annual leave + 1 day birthday leave
- Additional 1 week’s annual leave in the anniversary year (5, 10, 15 etc years’ service)
- Flexible fitness fund
- Life assurance
- AXA private health insurance
- Dental care
- Guaranteed income insurance in the event of sickness, personal injury and occupational injury
- Employee assistance programme – access to personal advice and support services including counselling
- Eyecare vouchers (once a year)
- Cycle to work
- Discounts on over 800 retailers, holiday packages, dinners and weekly shops
Job Owner: p.horlock-brown
