IT Developer

Contract length: 9 months 

Key Measurements of Success:

• Design and implement an Internal Development Platform that:
  
  • Reduces ramp-up time for cloud-native development initiatives
  • Provides an opinionated approach to building and running services in the cloud
  • Minimises DevOps effort for business teams
  • Encourages integration across teams and services
  • Reduces operational burden and costs
  • Accelerates time to market
• Deliver work as reusable services, patterns, processes, or libraries
• Enable efficient research and engineering workflows, including high-performance computing and specialised software environments

• Collaborate with Squad leads and Superintendents to define and deliver quarterly strategic objectives for both DX platforms
• Work with the delivery lead to construct and run customer engagements across development and research teams
• Facilitate team interactions, including stand-ups, retrospectives, and cross-functional collaboration sessions
• Design and build Squad APIs to enable effective communication with other squads and external teams, including:
  
  • Comprehensive Squad Wiki covering ways of working, preferred tooling, and development practices
  • User guides with "how-to" patterns for platform adoption
  • DX Platform for consuming squad-built services
  • Reusable code libraries and patterns
• Be accountable for the technical delivery of business initiatives in both development and research contexts
• Develop reuse patterns to accelerate solution delivery across diverse engineering disciplines

• Must-have skills and experience:
  
  • Demonstrable experience building and running applications in Cloud, OT/Edge, and research computing environments
  • Proficiency in deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes
  • Strong background in API development and integration
  • Experience with data-intensive applications and high-performance computing
  • Expertise in building automated DevOps workflows and release management
  • Proficiency in AWS cloud using cloud-native services
  • Strong coding skills in Python and TypeScript
  • Mastery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools – Terraform
  • A well-formed opinion on "well-architected" applications across various computing paradigms
• Desirable skills and experience:
  
  • Familiarity with open-source observability platforms
  • Knowledge of application security best practices
  • Experience with scientific computing environments and workflows
  • Understanding of containerisation for research applications