We are looking for someone who can demonstrate experience in: 

• Supporting, maintaining and enhancing business critical, enterprise systems 
• C#, .NET Core 
• Service/microservice development architecture
• API Development 
  Lucene Indexes, performant querying and writing using products such as ElasticSearch/NEST.
• Queue technologies such as ServiceBus or similar, and patterns such as Pub/Sub and Eventual Consistency.
• Working in a digital agency and has worked with project managers, UX/UI designs, internal, near-shore and off-shore development and QA teams. 
• Working within an agile development team and peer reviewing code  
• Object-oriented design and design patterns. 
• Azure (IaaS, PaaS including Serverless e.g. Functions) 
• CI/CD through dev, stage, UAT and production 
• Estimating technical effort, licensing and hosting costs and clearly communicating them to non-technical users 
• Highlighting technical risks and communicating potential mitigation strategies to a Project Manager to enable them to make informed decisions. 
• Planning, designing and writing automated tests including unit using NUnit, integration  
• Development methodologies such as DDD, BDD and TDD. 

The successful individual should be: 

• An excellent communicator - able to communicate technical information succinctly and meaningfully to non-technical colleagues and clients 
• Able to work as part of a team, working closely with Project Managers, Front end developers and DevOps engineers. 
• Able to plan; spotting technical risks, issues and dependencies and communicating the impact of these to the project team (with enough lead time to do something about them) 
• A self-starter, comfortable working autonomously when needed and being proactive in getting information to move work along when needed 
• Used to working in an agency environment, familiar with working to budgets, schedules, completing timesheets, participating in stand ups and providing progress updates 

Technical skills required: 

• .NET Core 
• Azure 
• SQL Server 
• Lucene Indexes such ElasticSearch or SOLR 
• Azure DevOps (similar TeamCity/Optopus/Jenkins etc 
• TDD/NUnit 

Bonus points if you have: 

• .NET Framework 
• CMS Experience, Umbraco, Sitecore 
• AWS or GCP  
• Docker 
• Kubernetes  
• Modern front-end frameworks such as React, Vue or Angular 
• Redis 
• Nginx 
• Experience working within a digital agency environment would be beneficial