Senior Developer
Addition Solutions Ltd
Watford, United Kingdom
8 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
£ 80KJob location
Watford, United Kingdom
Tech stack
Java
API
Collaborative Software
Amazon DynamoDB
Github
Monitoring of Systems
Job Scheduling
Python
Networking Basics
Node.js
Cloud Services
Ansible
Software Deployment
TCP/IP
Technical Data Management Systems
Datadog
Scripting (Bash/Python/Go/Ruby)
Enterprise Software Applications
Delivery Pipeline
Grafana
AWS Lambda
Servicebus
Containerization
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
InfluxDB
Atlassian Tools
Sensu
Graphite
Functional Programming
Api Gateway
Terraform
Appdynamics
Serverless Computing
Docker
ServiceNow
Job description
- Designing, deploying and managing automation and monitoring platforms that support large-scale applications and services
- Building and maintaining monitoring, alerting and observability tooling across the platform
- Creating dashboards that translate complex technical data into meaningful insights for stakeholders
- Developing automation to integrate new systems using existing frameworks
- Managing and configuring automated job scheduling and platform workflows
- Building GitHub Actions pipelines to deploy code across test and production environments
- Driving best practices around security, compliance, reliability and cost optimisation
- Supporting capacity planning and troubleshooting across complex infrastructure environments
- Working with technical leads and delivery teams to break down work into manageable tasks and stories
- Collaborating with product owners, analysts and engineers to shape and prioritise the development backlog
Requirements
- Strong experience with AWS cloud services and infrastructure automation
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform, Ansible and containerisation (Docker)
- Strong Python development skills, including scripting and Lambda functions
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines, ideally with GitHub Actions
- Monitoring and observability tooling such as AppDynamics, Grafana, InfluxDB, Graphite, Sensu or similar
- Experience working with serverless architectures (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, EventBridge)
- Solid understanding of Linux / Unix administration and troubleshooting
- Knowledge of networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, HTTP/S, APIs and encryption
- Familiarity with collaboration tools like JIRA and Confluence
- Exposure to modern development stacks such as Node.js, Java or similar
- Understanding of infrastructure services like Consul, Vault or ServiceNow ITOM is beneficial
- Strong communication, problem-solving and analytical thinking skills
Benefits & conditions
What's in It for You:
- Annual company bonus scheme
- Matched pension contributions up to 8.5%
- 26 days annual leave plus additional wellbeing days and bank holidays
- Private medical cover and life assurance
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
- £500 annual wellbeing allowance
- Access to nutrition advice, personal training and health assessments
- Financial coaching and wellbeing support
- Opportunity to contribute to a large-scale technology transformation with real societal impact
- A collaborative culture focused on innovation, inclusion and continuous improvement
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About the company
A major UK organisation responsible for one of the country's most recognised digital platforms is undergoing a large-scale technology transformation. They're looking for a Senior Developer to help design, automate and support the infrastructure that powers critical services used by millions.