Position: Senior Software Engineer
Employment Type: Contract, Full time
Start: ASAP
Location: Sheffield – Hybrid 3 days a week
Languages: English
Role – We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team in delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance systems on Public Cloud platforms. This role is ideal for someone with a strong software engineering background who is also well-versed in modern DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture.
You’ll play a critical role in designing and building backend services, infrastructure automation, and client-facing components in a secure, high-availability environment at one of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Key skills:
Please apply with your latest CV or share your CV directly with me at christophe.ramen@focusonsap.org
Employment Type: Contract, Full time
Start: ASAP
Location: Sheffield – Hybrid 3 days a week
Languages: English
Role – We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team in delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance systems on Public Cloud platforms. This role is ideal for someone with a strong software engineering background who is also well-versed in modern DevOps practices, cloud infrastructure, and microservices architecture.
You’ll play a critical role in designing and building backend services, infrastructure automation, and client-facing components in a secure, high-availability environment at one of the world’s leading financial institutions.
Key skills:
- Proven experience with Public Cloud platforms (AWS and/or GCP).
- Strong background in building and maintaining compute, storage, and networking infrastructure.
- Proficiency in Linux systems and automation scripting (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with relational and NoSQL databases.
- Expertise in building and consuming RESTful APIs.
- Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and serverless functions.
- Solid understanding of microservices architecture and distributed tracing.
- Experience with enterprise-grade monitoring and logging frameworks.
- Comfortable working with CI/CD and continuous testing tools.
- Programming experience in at least Python, Java, or GoLang.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work in Agile development environments.
- Consulting background is a plus.
- Strong communication skills (oral & written)
- Rights to work in the UK is must (No Sponsorship available)
- Design, develop, and maintain highly available RESTful APIs and frontend clients using Python, GoLang, Docker, and Cloud-Native services.
- Manage infrastructure automation and provisioning using Terraform, Ansible, and other IAC tools across AWS and GCP.
- Implement and manage schema changes and migrations using Liquibase, ensuring compliance and traceability.
- Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with DevOps and Security to enforce compliance, testing, and delivery best practices.
- Monitor, maintain, and optimize infrastructure and services with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK/Splunk for observability.
- Collaborate with architecture, infrastructure, and cybersecurity teams to meet security, compliance, and governance standards.
- Support live environments with incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation for performance and availability issues.
- Develop microservices that are observable, testable, and easily deployable within Kubernetes and serverless environments.
Please apply with your latest CV or share your CV directly with me at christophe.ramen@focusonsap.org
