Senior Software Developer - South West England, United Kingdom - Akton Recruitment Ltd

Akton Recruitment Ltd

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South West England, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Senior Software Developer

£600/Day

6-Month Contract

Remote Working

Akton Resourcing are looking for a Senior Software Developer to join one of the largest Public Sector clients in the UK.

Their head office is based in Exeter but the majority of work can be done remotely.

About the role

The Transport Tribe is a DevOps tribe who develop and operate a number of systems that provide API based weather data services for the transport industry e.g.

Aviation, Rail & Marine. We exclusively work on AWS and extensively with the serverless technologiesAWS offer. We use CDK heavily and our main language of choice is Python.

Main Responsibilities

Application development
Design, develop, test and document robust, maintainable & secure code using industry standard patterns as per features described on the backlog.

Build & Deployment

Write and maintain automation pipelines for managing CI/CD working environments.

Agile Delivery

Take an active role in agile ceremonies including scrums, sprint planning, refinement and retrospectives.

Mentoring

Mentor junior software developers within the tribe providing guidance through code reviews and pair programming.

Support

Take an active role in supporting the tribe's technical estate during working hours.

About You

Good knowledge and experience of developing and testing software using Python with industry standard patterns.
Good knowledge and experience of using AWS serverless technologies (Lambda, StepFunctions, DynamoDB, S3, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch, APIGateway, RDS, CloudWatch) within production level IT Systems.
Good knowledge and experience of building and deploying software into an AWS environment using CDK, codeBuild, codePipeline.
Experience of using GitHub workflows.
Experience of using Jenkins to drive CI/CD.
Experience of working in an Agile SCRUM working environment.
Communication skills that foster good working relationships with developers, and non-technical stakeholders like Product Owners and Delivery Managers.
Ability to nurture and bring on junior developers through support and guidance.