Senior Cloud Developer / Team Lead (Azure / C#)

Senior Cloud Developer – Team Lead (Azure / C#) | Contract | Remote

Description

Responsible for leading a small team dedicated to analysing, and re-platforming legacy C# / VB.NET code and on-premise based infrastructure to a new Azure cloud platform.

Location

Remote, occasional visits to Victoria Street, London for workshops, etc.

Consulting to

Architecture Team

Role Summary

The company is undertaking a multi-year Cloud Transformation, and as part of this migration we require a Senior Technical Lead with strong Azure skills to assist in the analysis, development and deployment of new capabilities within the Azure environment.

The role will be responsible for working with the architecture team to understand strategic direction, then planning and implementing the desired functionality with their team.

All deliveries will be hosted in an Azure environment with a strong emphasis on performance, automation, monitoring and logging, and security, and therefore candidates need to possess a solid understanding and extensive experience of working in a modern Cloud environment including DevOps and CI/CD processes.

Key Characteristics:

* Highly passionate, self-motivated and driven individual who has a strong understanding of all the principles of the software development lifecycle.

* A strong development background in C#, especially in the Azure environment.

* The ability to challenge and push the envelope on cloud-oriented designs with best practise in mind.

* They will be good communicators that have an open and transparent style of working that can influence both up and down the hierarchy.

Key interactions:

* Architects Team

* Product Owner Team

* Integration Team

* Ops Team

Key Tasks & Responsibilities:

* Design and development of highly performant public facing REST API’s and associated system integrations in an Azure hosted environment.

* Documentation of API’s conforming to the Open API 3.x framework.

* Leading and steering the direction of a small, dedicated team, including building team alignment, code reviews, design workshops, story/ticket elaboration, etc.

* Review existing legacy implementations and input from the architecture team, and building appropriate solutions on the new platform following best practices.

* Provide recommendations of new technologies or tools to ensure that the new platform is developed, tested and hosted in the most secure, scalable manner.

* Provide guidance on tools and recommendations for the automation of testing and deployments of all deliverables

Education and Professional Membership

* Educated to Degree Level or equivalent, preferably in Computer Science or related subject

* Azure Certifications an advantage

Required Skills

* C#, Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL, Azure CosmosDB, Azure Service Bus, Azure Function Apps, Azure APIM, Azure Front Door, Auth0, WebSockets

* Strong development experience in C# and .NET core technologies built up across a range of different enterprise-grade projects

* Experience of designing API’s from the ground up which conform as much as possible to REST principles in terms of Resources, Sub Resources, Responses, Error Handling

* Experience of API design and documentation using Open API 3.x / YAML / Swagger

* Hands on experience of development, deployment and support within an Azure Environment

* Development of Azure functionality that utilises the best in breed security and authorisation concepts

* Creation and maintenance of build and release automation (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps.

* Performance tuning of APIs and Azure Functions

* Ability and willingness to learn quickly and adapt to a fast-changing environment, with a strong interest in continuous improvement and delivery.

* Strong problem-solving skills and a good understanding of the best practices and the importance of Test Automation processes.

* Some familiarity with AWS, and especially ElasticSearch would be beneficial but not mandatory.