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Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Duration: Permanent
Location: Gloucester
Job Ref: 202249
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About the role
Benefact Group, are looking for a .NET Engineer (full stack) to join our Gloucester office.
We are looking for a .NET Engineer with strong all-round full-stack skills for to join our Engineering Team at an exciting time. We are regularly updating our tools and technologies to the latest versions and using them to develop business critical solutions alongside .NET development and engineering. The target hosting environment is Microsoft Azure. We are in the process of improving our working practices, using Agile and Scrum methodology to deliver value as early as possible. We use a range of server- and client-side technologies such as C# ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Web API, Typescript, Vue.js and Bootstrap and Blazor. We are now developing new projects with a cloud first approach and use many of the components and services available within the Azure fabric.
Teams are now providing restful APIs for re-use across our IT landscape inline with our integration and API strategies.
The team are responsible for several development projects and maintenance of other key assets.
You will be able to provide excellent technical capacity and capability and engineering excellence to agile teams and enable rapid and high-quality outputs. Contributing and increasing to our library of Azure components.
You will ideally have experience scripting environments, developing with resiliency, scalability, performance, and cost optimisation in mind.
We are regularly updating our tools and technologies to the latest versions and using them to develop business critical solutions alongside Dynamics and .NET development and engineering. The target hosting environment is Microsoft Azure.
You will have an understanding of the DevOps lifecycle and how with a focus on automation, CICD practices we will release to production, reliable applications frequently inline with Scrum time-boxes.
You will have the benefit of using the latest hardware, and receiving MSDN and Pluralsight subscriptions to support your ongoing professional development.
It's not all about the technology (though we do enjoy it) - it is all about the customer and collaborating with our co-workers to deliver something of enduring and sustainable value.
We'd like you to help us to do that.
Knowledge, skills and experience
Essential skills:
* Demonstrable knowledge of C#
* Demonstrable knowledge of .NET Framework, and Visual Studio.
* Strong knowledge of cloud development and deployment via Azure and/or AWS.
* Knowledge of Azure Integration Services and/or other Integration Platforms.
* Experience identifying and developing appropriate integration for mission critical services.
* Experience with Azure Active Directory, Application Gateway, AMI Management.
Desirable skills:
* Experience of working in an Agile environment, using concepts like Scrum, Kanban etc.
* Experience of CI/CD pipelines for building and deploying code (e.g. Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Jenkins etc.)
* Experience with unit / acceptance testing, infrastructure-as-code, QA practices (using ReSharper and SonarCloud and code review), accessibility standards & testing, and source control (using Git).
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What we offer
* A competitive salary - let's discuss it
* Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
* Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
* 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
* An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
* Up to £300 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
* Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Full study support to gain professional qualifications
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About us
Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and are currently the UK’s 3rd largest corporate donor, having given away £200 million since 2016. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.
We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.
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At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.
If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.
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