Part-Time Backend .Net / SQL Developer

Job Responsibilities:

• Provide accurate estimates for the implementation of assigned feature/function and deliver to those estimates (within the sprint). Attend daily scrum to inform progress of assignments.
• Assist in the definition and implementation of development best practice, environments, and tooling. As well as assisting in the evaluation and recommendation of new technologies, platforms, and software.
• Implement assigned aspects (formal specification) of the agreed solution within a Test Driven Development approach. Take pro-active steps to ensure high availability/reliability and high performance/through-put of solutions. All coding is performed directly on the trunk (within a SubVersion repository) and within strict guidelines. All service configurations and managed within a well-defined configuration management process catering for multiple environments and service instances.
• Work with other members of Engineering to design/document holistic solutions to be delivered across our sprint delivery model. Large feature/function is typically delivered in fragments awaiting its final assembly, configuration and enabling in Production.
• Assist in the maintenance, tuning (optimum performance) and issue resolution of production services.
• Work with 3rd party service providers as/when the need arises.

Experience Required:

• Contribute/Support Development with respect to …
• Work effectively, both as part of a process driven team and autonomously with minimum supervision.

• development, build and deployment standards/approaches
• process definition, evaluation, rollout, enforcement and continuous review with respect to our software delivery pipeline
• best practice usage of tooling
• delivery of continuous integration/delivery

• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Documentation of process, usage of tools, release audits and similar.
• Ability to grasp complex scenarios quickly and make educated, critical judgments fast.

Essential and Desirable Skills:

• [required] Strong working knowledge and experience of …

• C#, .Net 3.5+, tSQL/SQLServer (2014+)
• Deployments into IIS and Windows Cluster Manager environments
• Visual Studio 2015+ (with nunit, productivity/refactoring plugins (e.g. Resharper)
• Agile sprints-scrum based software delivery pipeline
• Software version control tool; SubVersion (desired), Mercurial, Git, Perforce, etc.
• Project/team collaboration tool (ticketing systems); JIRA (desired), Mantis, Bugzilla, etc.
• Continuous Integration/Delivery tooling such as TeamCity (desired) and/or Jenkins

• [desired] Experience/knowledge of programming paradigms; networking, concurrency, publish/subscribe, cloud patterns, etc.
• [advantageous]Continuous Delivery experience/exposure; tooling such as TeamCity, WebDeploy, Octopus, etc.
• [advantageous] Environment configuration management tooling; PowerShell, Powershell DSC, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• [advantageous] Proficiency in second scripting/coding language; PowerShell, Python, Java, javascript, etc.
• [advantageous] Exposure to Cloud-ification of services, migration to cloud and maintenance/support thereafter.

Educational Requirements:

• 3rd level degree in an IT related field

Working Hours:

• Standard working week