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
£ 80K

Job 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.

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