IT Software Engineer

IT Software Engineer

• Location: Taunton
• Salary: 35k-38k
• Type: Full-time
• Reporting to: Head of IT

Dovetail and Slate are recruiting on behalf of a leading education provider based in Taunton.

Role Purpose

• To lead agile development, ideally with commercial experience or a post-grad background in Software Engineering.
• Responsible for managing the full application lifecycle in Azure, working with technologies like .Net 8 (C#), Azure SQL, serverless functions, and MVC.
• Collaborate within the DevOps team on CI/CD, contribute to AI projects, and receive support for Microsoft Certifications, fostering career growth.

Responsibilities

• Analyse user requirements, design, research, write, test, and document software solutions to professional standards.
• Develop middleware solutions (console applications, azure functions) to integrate different systems utilised by the organisation.
• Participate in collaborative development practices within the team to produce robust, maintainable, and resilient solutions.
• Fault find and debug existing / legacy software.
• Implement appropriate security processes/protections against common and contemporary vulnerabilities in source code and artefacts.
• Liaise with and provide advice, support, training, and guidance to users.
• Clearly and regularly communicate with development and technical support colleagues.
• Maintain and develop new automated processes where possible to create efficiencies.
• Assist in the designing and deploying web-based datasets, dashboards, and interactive reports.

Requirements

• Relevant experience in a similar setting.
• Knowledge of the Microsoft .NET development stack.
• Knowledge of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and jQuery.
• Knowledge and experience of Microsoft ASP.NET MVC web development.
• Experience of troubleshooting.
• Able to work independently, be responsible and able to use own initiative.

If this job is of interest, please apply to this advert with your CV.