Software Developer, Software Engineer, Cloud Engineer - Software

Software Developer

6-month contract

Edinburgh

Hybrid

Outside IR35

£480 per day

Harvey Nash's public sector client is currently looking to recruit a Developer to join their team based in Edinburgh for an initial 6-month period.

An experienced developer with solid commercial AWS development experience is required to accelerate a move from legacy on-prem registers to new cloud-native solutions. The focus of the work will be the collaborative development of new serverless micro-services using AWS Lambda functions and Type Script/JavaScript.

• AWS including:
  • CDK
  • Serverless (Lambda)
  • S3
  • API Gateway
  • Cloud Formation
• Type Script (or modern JavaScript)
• Making excellent quality software with other people.
• Working with business stakeholders, to understand the context, and to focus on delivering value.
• Design and implementation of solutions using a service-based and serverless architecture.
• Excellent collaboration, communication and teamwork skills
• Experience working in the Agile delivery models - such as Scrum and/or Kanban frameworks.
• Developing within GDS or Digital First (or similar) quality standards
• Cloud monitoring, telemetry, intelligence tools and processes
• Formal XP engineering techniques, including Pair Programming and Test-Driven Development
• Defining infrastructure-as-code

• Human-centred, research-driven, inclusive design practices
• Testing tools and frameworks, e.g. Cypress
• Use of UI pattern libraries to achieve consistent, tested and high-quality interfaces