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Senior Software EngineerContract 12 months initially 2/3 days a week onsite in Wilmslow IR35 Status - TBC Rate - TBCPlease ensure you read the below overview and requirements for this employment opportunity completely.The team you'll join are currently completing the development of the suite of micro-services (e.g. Tenancy Admin, Notifications) written in C# and built on the AWS architecture that will comprise our first Cloud Platform, due live later in the year. Many other initiatives are being worked on to support the new platform, such as developing monitoring using DataDog, security hardening using GitHub Actions, introducing Playwright for our automation testing.ResponsibilitiesAs a Principal Software Engineer within the Cloud platform, you would be part of the Informatics group producing software that is used by people worldwide for specialist measurement and scientific analysis. Your main responsibilities would include:Designing, developing and/or maintaining all aspects of software developed within the Cloud platform teamCollaborating with stakeholders on software and technical issues.Acting as technical expert for coding, process and best practices (e.g. adherence to Definition of Done) and effectively communicate this to the teamWe are looking for the following skills Extensive knowledge and proven experience as a software developer, with exposure to elements of our back-end technology stack (C#, .Net)Good experience working with Amazon Web Services, Microservices, API developmentKnowledge and application of software engineering practices (e.g. Unit testing, TDD, CI/CD, SOLID, BDD etc.) and experience working as part of an agile delivery team.Continuous delivery, with pipelines implemented in Kubernetes, DockerFront-End JavaScript Frameworks, especially Angular is advantageousExperience implementing and maintaining DatadogExperience using GitHub and GitHub ActionsBehaviour Driven Development (BDD), with Gherkin & SpecFlowAtlassian Jira, Confluence & JFrog ArtifactoryIdeally some software security best practices and implementation (e.g. OWASP, PKI, X509 Certificates, TLS)Software development for regulated environments (e.g. IVD / Medical devices). Not essential