Senior Developer

Addition Solutions Ltd
Watford, UK
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
£80,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Collaborative Software Amazon DynamoDB Github Monitoring of Systems Job Scheduling Python (Programming Language) Networking Basics Node.Js Cloud Services Ansible
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Software Deployment TCP/IP Technical Data Management Systems Datadog Scripting 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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