**THIS IS A 12 MONTH CONTRACT THAT CAN BE WORKED 100% REMOTE**
**CANDIDATES MUST BE ABLE TO WORK ON APEX'S W2 FOR THE DURATION OF THE CONTRACT**
**IF INTERESTED IN THIS ROLE, PLEASE EMAIL YOUR REUSME TO AVISINTINE@APEXSYSTEMS.COM
Responsibilities :
•Understand the business / application requirements clearly and design / develop accordingly.
•Work with Product Manager on the requirements / TPMs on the scheduling and other fellow developers on the functionality implementations and dependencies.
•Generate technical documentation as well as unit and functional tests.
•Demonstrate great technical proficiency on dot net / no sql databases technologies and TDD (Test Driven Development).
•Analyze business requirements, processes, data, and system integration points to determine/recommend appropriate technology solutions.
•Work closely with the global development team, other senior Solution Architects, and leaders within DCP / DCS Engineering group.
•Participate and contribute towards architecture / Design discussions, perform defect triage, support prod deployment.
Day to Day:
- Attend daily stand-up meetings
- Pick up the tasks and develop the solution
- Make sure accurate test cases are there and the CICD pipeline doesn’t break
- Review changes with Dev leads
- Work with PO for clarification on requirements
- Communicate status to TPM / Dev Manager
- Support defect fixes as needed.
Must Have Skillset :
• Java
• Python
• Nodejs
• Containerization and/or Cloud Computing
• NoSQL: Redis, Mongo (or similar)
• 12 factors App
• Serverless architecture
• Streaming services - Kafka, Event Hub or similar
Nice to have Skillset :
• System modelling
• SaaS
• Graph solutions
• Data mining
• Experience with SRE tools like Splunk / Newrelic
Job functions
- Perform design, prototyping, system analysis, development, and maintenance of systems
- Design and implement clean and scalable APIs and data models
- Work with our amazing Quality Engineers as needed on automated testing
- Ensure code quality with the team (writing tests, code reviews)
- Mentoring junior developers
- And, of course, code!
Qualifications - External
Skills required
- 5+ years of Ruby on Rails experience
- 1+ years JavaScript framework experience (Angular, React, etc.)
- Ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment
- Demonstrated experience with Ruby on Rails as a programming platform to develop multi-tier web-based applications
- Desire to expand knowledge in many development languages, applications, and tools
- Willingness to learn some or all of the technologies listed in this posting!
Experience with some or all of the following is considered a bonus:
- Docker and container orchestration
- Java & Spring Boot
- Cloud-based infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)
- CI/CD experience (TeamCity, Jenkins)
- Database/key-value store technologies (Redis, MySQL, MariaDB) experience
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $50.00 - $60.00 per hour
Schedule:
Experience:
Location:
Work authorization:
Work Location:
My client are looking for exceptional Fullstack Developers to work on a remote basis.
I realise highlighting exceptional seems like a pointless exercise, however the CTO is being very selective with the candidates they bring into the team. You would need to be a senior profile (5y+ experience) with broad experience and exposure to most of the below. The point is that everyone who joins the team drives and improves the standard with their abiity. The stack is listed below, successful candidates will likely have 90% of the requirements to a high level.
The client are a well-established FinTech with remote consultants based all over Europe.
Stack: (The more you have the better!)
Services:
Java + SpringBoot, Node.js + Express, the odd thing in GoLang
Web:
React, redux
Infrastructure:
AWS, Kubernetes, lots of managed services from AWS, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, service mesh
Test automation:
Cucumber, Pact, Cypress
Architecture:
DevOps Engineer - £480-£500 3-6 month contract - Outside IR35 - Azure, Powershell, CI/CD
I have just had a DevOps Engineer contract position come across my desk looking for someone who has Azure, Powershell, CI/CD. This is a 3-6 month contract and will most likely last 1 year. This a fully remote position.
DevOps:
- Strong understanding and working knowledge of Azure IaaS + FaaS + PaaS (VM’s, Azure Functions, App Services, Redis, etc).
- Knowledge of Cloud networking and security.
- Experience writing and deploying IaC using Ansible or Terraform.
- Experience in setting up and configuration of CI/CD pipeline products such as Azure Devops, TeamCity and Octopus.
- Strong scripting skills. Preferably Powershell and/or Bash.
- Knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.
SRE:
- Industry experience using logging and application performance monitoring tools such as New Relic.
- Exposure to load testing practises and capacity planning.
- Communication skills for managing and escalating issues to 3rd parties.
- If you have an understanding of high availability and disaster recovery strategies, that would also be a plus, as would; familiarity with Atlassian products, C# and .Net Core.
If this DevOps Engineer role is of interest, Please apply!
Contract Developer DevOps (Developer Experience Engineer / Site Reliability Engineer)
3 Month Contract
(Remote Working)
Technologies
Azure; JMeter; Ansible; Terraform; C#; asp.net; Web APIs; Continuous-Integration
Job description
Spectrum IT's Southampton Client are seeking an experienced Contract Engineer to join their DevEx/SRE team for a three month contract. In this role you will assist with a project rolling out replacement infrastructure (now under IaC) and load testing using JMeter in anticipation of their busy January business period.
Candidates for this role will have a strong interest in cloud computing and collaboration for our small and growing Developer Experience and System Reliability teams.
The Role:
Under the role of Developer Experience Engineer (Dev/Ex), you will be responsible for creating, maintaining and improving the tools and automated systems that the client's IT teams rely on. This is inline with he current process of migrating the Azure infrastructure to a full IaC (Infrastructure as Code) solution based around Ansible and Terraform. IaC is being integrated as an integral part of our CI/CD pipeline.
As part of a team that supports the Azure infrastructure and CI/CD tools; you will have a crucial role ensuring the stability and performance by gathering, analysing and acting on the metric data collected. Communication and collaboration with other teams is essential, the ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills and be comfortable communicating with developers and stakeholders alike.
A key area for this role will involve promoting a DevOps culture in the department by working with colleagues as part of the DevOps Chapter. From this you will be improving the Azure estate by recognising potential improvements to functionality and security.
In regards to SRE, you will have responsibilities of a System Reliability Engineer. You will be using monitoring and logging platforms for alerting and to provide insight into any potential issues. When issues arise you will be responsible for triaging and assigning them to the appropriate team. To further increase stability and performance you will be defining and operating our load testing strategy.
Skill / Experience Required:
Devex:
SRE:
An understanding of high availability and disaster recovery strategies would be beneficial, as would a familiarity with Atlassian products, C# and .Net Core.
We're looking for an experienced and enthusiastic React.js Front-end Engineer to join one of our teams, and be part of building high impact innovative products and experiences. We value curiosity, and a passion for learning, and growing together.
Core Skills & Competencies
ES6/ES7/Typescript & Node
React, Redux, nextJS
Git, CI/CD, and at basic shell scripting
GCP and/or AWS experience
Experience working with RESTful APIs & GraphQL
Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms, such as JSON Web Tokens
experience with at least one or more of the following: Mongo, Firestore, Neo4j, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DynamoDB
Serverless and containerization
Strong design sensibilities and adept with markup and SCSS/CSS-in-JS/Styled Components
Strong working knowledge and experience with TDD (unit, integration, E2E)
Responsibilities
Developing new user-facing features using React.js
Building reusable components and front-end libraries for future use
Translating specifications, wireframes and designs into high quality code
Optimizing components for maximum performance across an array of web-capable devices and browsers
Contribute to the planning, and architecture of applications and systems.
Stack / Tools
ReactJS
Redux & Redux Sagas
ES6/ES7/Typescript
Mocha/Jest/Cypress
NodeJS
Github
JIRA
Slack
Requirements for Application
Code or a portfolio worth sharing, that will help us validate your skills and experience
Minimum of 3 years of relevant work experience
Contactable references
At least 1 of the following: Github profile or similar, StackOverflow profile,, HackerRank etc.
Bonus Points for
Being a polyglot
Contributing to open source
Sharing your side project
Sharing your blog, or other developer community involvement
Who You Are
Unafraid to make decisions and take the initiative
Willing to learn and try new things
Keen communication skills (both written and verbal)
Have a keen understanding of user experience and how every layer of a system contributes to it.
Have the self discipline and organisational skills to work effectively as part of a remote team
Benefits:
Sponsored and incentivised Learning, Personal and Professional Development
Work Remotely full time, flexible hours
Work in small product-focused and highly autonomous teams
Competitive Market-Related Salary,
Comprehensive Discovery Medical Aid, Vitality and Gap Cover for SA based team members
Who We Are:
We're a small distributed Product development team of teams, looking to grow. steadily and intentionally. We're engineers and designers first, we put our heart into our work, and make no apologies for it. We're driven to win, to innovate, to "raise the bar" and have one hell of a time doing it.
We're on a mission to be a world-class team, what does that mean?
Consistently investing in people
Focused on team and process improvement
Tight feedback cycles internally and with customers
Quality engineering and design first, always.
Data-driven team-based decision making
Transparency, internally and externally.
Autonomy, Accountability, and Ownership.
A culture of experimentation, testing & knowing over guessing.
Independent thinking and ritual decent
The Work
Our customers are ambitious, they dream big, and have high hopes and expectations for the work we do. They value us as a partner and our commitment to quality above all else. We don't just write code, we help shape the product vision, the technologies, and instill the values of agility, high-quality product development and delivery.
We consult for leading brands, and innovative startups across multiple industries, in SA, Europe, and the USA. We're focused on small, regular delivery iterations with long-lasting engagements, and have one or more teams dedicated to a project.
If you're interested in joining a dynamic, creative and fast-evolving team, want to explore new technologies, and build high impact products, we would love to hear from you.
Notes on our Hiring Process
We don't want to waste your time or ours, please read the above carefully.
We follow a four-step process, after completing the pre-screening, we'll have an initial brief phone or video call, a review of your work or evidence of your technical capabilities, and lastly a team interview before going into contract negotiation.
If you cannot satisfy the minimum requirements for application above, please prepare a motivation as to why we should consider your application.