Role Title: JAVA Engineer - Microservices / Messaging
Duration: 6 month contract
Location: Telford, Hybrid 2 days per week onsite
Rate: £350 - £440 p/d Umbrella inside IR35
Role purpose / summary
A new opportunity for a software engineer/developer, this new position is part of the EIS TS2 contract area. The Developer will work within a DevOps team, using Agile at Scale methodology, and may be involved in development of new products, maintenance of existing products and support of live services, carrying out development in accordance with the agreed requirements and development.
The role requires
Knowledge of Open Source & Digital technologies; Familiarity & knowledge in the following concepts/areas:
* Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
* Agile/Lean Development
* Dev Ops
* Infrastructure as Code
* Automated Deployment of code
* Configuration Automation
* Cloud Computing and AWS
* Automated provisioning and scaling ; Knowledge of tools to enable the above.
Essential:
* Lateral thinking: generate innovative approaches and solutions to complex problems
* Pragmatism: delivery-focused, adaptable and responsive
* Influencing skills to drive change and continuous improvement
* Self-starter with demonstrable career progression through personal initiative
* Passionate and energetic: ambitious, committed, drives immediacy and urgency
* Strong people skills: communication, negotiation, listening
* Demonstrable ability to learn new platforms and technologies quickly
* Good written and verbal communication skills, Problem solving and creativity skills, Honesty and Integrity, Eagerness to learn, Drive and energy, Professional appearance
* Agile approach and methods; Strong Experience of Agile methodology; Open Source / Digital technologies & solutions
Desirable Skills:
* Technical ability in JAVA, J2ee
* Experienced in the following languages/tools, must have a proven background of experience - Java, JSON, XML, Microservices, Agile Scrum methodology, Play Framework, mongoDB.
* Knowledge of these areas - Scala, Docker, Puppet, IntelliJ, IDE, Sbt
* Knowledge of -Java Development, Weblogic, Webmethods, Java Scripting, J2SE, J2EE, Spring, EJB, HTML, HTML5, Unix, Eclipse, SOAP, XML, REST, JBOSS, Apache, Tomact, SQL, Hibernate, JUnit, Selenium (Automation), GiT
* Ability to work in all areas of the project life cycle.
* Strong working knowledge of Agile approach & methodologies
* Good interpersonal and communication skills.
* Strong problem solving ability.
* Mentoring skills
* Ability to write technical papers/reports.
All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!