Azure Software Developer

Introduction

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting Client Innovation Centres (Delivery Centres), where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centres offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio, including Software and Red Hat.

Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground-breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We offer:

• Regular and frequent promotion and progression opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us

• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year; no one off annual reviews here

• A multitude of training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs as well as the chance to gain industry recognized certifications

• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks

• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome

• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees

• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, 1 month paid paternity leave, 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme

• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday, a gym discount scheme, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your role and responsibilities

Full stack developers should be able to work in the modern cloud-native environment. The cloud-native solutions are built around:

• Developer Azure Native services

• Microservices based modular designs

• API driven microservices

• Continuous release and improvement cycle via Agile

• Event Driven Architectures

• Containerized workloads

• Serverless Architectures

• Purposed databases

• Progressive Web Applications based on SPA and microfrontends

A full stack developer should have deep skills in:

• Developing rich UI applications based on SPA or microfrontends

• Frameworks: ReactJS, Angular (any one of these)

• Development of scalable and resilient backend microservices that are based on 12 factor principles a bounded context of the business domain and expose the functionality via API and event interfaces

• Development of data model in modern SQL and No-SQL modelling techniques

• Knowledge of microservices purposed programming languages

• Runtimes: Experience in .NET Core, .Net based development

• Proficiency of Azure cloud services and frameworks

• Developing Event Driven Applications using Kafka, Zookeeper

• Knowledge of cloud-native CI/CD for change release

• Knowledge in Test Driven Development

Azure Full stack developers need to be proficient in running and managing services on Azure:

• PaaS: Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), Azure Container Service, Azure container registry, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure App Services, Azure Batch, Azure Functions, and Azure Service Fabric

• Content: Azure content delivery network (CDN)

• Routing Services: APIM

• Databases: Azure SQL DB, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Cache for Redis

• Event Driven: Implementation experience of Azure Integrations services like Azure Logic apps, Services Bus, Event Grid and APIM

• Observability: AppInsights, Azure Monitor

• DevSecOps: Azure DevOps (Azure Boards, Azure Pipeline, Azure Repos), GitHub. Good Knowledge in Azure CI, Power shell scripting and create pipeline using YAML. Knowledge in developing Infrastructure as a Code using Terraform and ARM Templates

• Storage: Azure Storage

• Networking: Azure Vnet, Azure VM

Required technical and professional expertise

• Vue Js Responsive Web Development HTML CSS Node JS JavaScript

• Knowledge of C# .NET (particularly ASP.NET Core)

• Experience with HTML JavaScript and web development frameworks (Vue.JS) is preferred

• Proven experience with software design and object oriented development methodologies

• Knowledge with both relational and NoSQL databases

• Knowledge with cloud (Azure preferred)

• Strong experience with web services development (REST)

• Knowledge of object oriented programming MVC MVVM

• Design patterns and SOLID principles

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds. However, for you to be eligible for this role, you must have the valid right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we do not offer visa sponsorship and have no future plans to do so. You must be a resident in the UK and have been living continuously in the UK for the last 10 years. You must be able to hold or gain a UK government security clearance.