Technology/Domain Specialist - Contract
Sandton
R 300 - 345 per hour
Our Client a Global Tech firm is seeking a Technology Domain Specialist to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.
We are looking for an individual to lead the design and architecture of large-scale backend applications using the best practices to ensure high levels of performance, maintainability and availability. Be involved in all aspects of development playing a critical role in design, planning, development, and deployment and drive improvements in the companys software delivery life cycle to enable high quality continuous delivery process. The ideal candidate will bring a mindset of creativity, innovation, and balance bleeding edge technology development with a relentless pursuit of timely product engineering delivery.
Requirements
4+ years in a senior role designing and developing large-scale web applications
Hands-on public cloud experience - AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Heroku
Strong understanding of containers Docker, Kubernetes
Required experience in REST API development
Polyglot developer with current hands-on development experience in a major framework - .Net Core, Java/Springboot, Python, JS/NodeJS, Nest.JS, Nuxt.JS
Hands-on experience with low-latency messaging/queueing technologies - Kafka, rabbit MQ
Demonstrable familiarity with CI/CD process, testing frameworks and practices with tools like git, Jenkins/Bitbucket pipelines, Spinnaker
Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability Tools such as Dynatrace & DataDog
Strong knowledge of application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines
Expert understanding of architecture and design across all systems
Experience working within an agile development environment
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Ability to work in a dynamic, remote-first environment with a globally distributed team
Learn about new trends and drive team discussions to improve the product.
Excellent written and oral communication skills
Comfortable leading the frontend development team in big projects
This is a hands-on role and code contribution daily is required
Qualifications
B-Degree in Software Engineering
7 years experience required
Experience using Node.js tools, backend tech stacks including Node, Python and Go
Experience with testing (Cypress, Jest) and CI/CD platforms such as Bitbucket Pipelines and Spinnaker
Experience with SonarCloud (Code scanning, vulnerabilities, code coverage, code quality etc) and Cloudflare (Caching, DNS, WAF, CSP)
Experience using Monorepos using Nx (we have over 20+ FE apps in the same repo)
Experience with Datadog, AWS services and using Terrafrom, Debt Manager V11.3 mainframe, Debt Manager v702, FTP, Cobol, JCL, Cloud Azure
Banking and exposure to agile delivery scrum, kanban and SAFe
Data Warehousing and information technology Architecture