Cloud Developer - AWS - Banking*

Role: Cloud Developer

Location: Knutsford, UK(Hybrid)

Job description:

• AWS Cloud Engineer with experience in CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, AWS ALB, Multi-region, ECS Containers

• Tools: CHEF, Linux

What will you be doing?

• Producing high quality, performant and well-documented code adhering to secure coding principles

• Understand CloudFormation templates (Infrastructure as Code / IaC)

• Have an understanding of all relevant AWS services we currently use or may leverage in the future

• Work closely with Product Owners to understand business and customer problems and how our applications can help solve them

• Provide input on technical designs, learning to recognise potential performance and security issues early in their lifecycle

• Manage work using both Scrum and Kanban Agile methodologies, supporting continuous improvements in team productivity whilst sensibly managing risks and issues

• Review code changes made by others, helping to support their personal development and the overall quality and reliability of our products

• Participate in technical design discussions and present them in tech forums.

• Support releases through to production, identifying and implementing improvements to our Continious Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) processes where relevant

What we’re looking for:

• You will be an excellent developer with 9+ years of experience. Go is our primary language, and whilst in-depth experience isn’t essential, familiarity with other languages like Java is desirable

• You have application architecture skills, understanding the benefits of using key AWS services and how they can be integrated.

• You will be having strong at engineering practices (like XP, TDD), CI & CD, Pair programming

• You will be having strong understanding of Design & Enterprise, Cloud Native patterns.

• You have experience in designing and developing RESTful APIs

• Your superior coding skills will lead you to naturally create code that is not only easy to maintain and enhance but will be well structured and documented

• You have a relevant AWS certification specific to the role (e.g. Cloud Practioner, Developer or Architect)

• Have ability to drive the end-to-end software development lifecycle

• Have delivered successful enterprise-class products to market.

• Experience with automation at all levels of software development.

• You are strongly customer focused and an exceptional problem solver

• You recognise the value of Continuous Improvement and work to identify, understand and resolve issues affecting quality and delivery

• You should have Strong experience in applictaion of Object Oriented concepts

• You carry passion for new technology

• You should have experience in applying SOLID principles

• You should be good at identifying apt data structure to be used for given requirement.

• You have pretty good understanding of Engineering Practices (like XP, TDD.)

• You are an excellent communicator with the ability to effectively engage with audiences of varying technical proficiency