Software Developer - Glasgow - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

Day Rate - Up to 472

Duration - 12 months

Harvey Nash's FS Client are hiring a Software Developer, you will support in designing/developing a reliable, secure and agile technical platform for the Client's business applications and operations.. You must travel onsite 3 days per week in Glasgow.

Responsibilities include:

• We are seeking a multi-talented developer that will focus on designing and developing highly available and scalable solutions to manage the firm wide storage repository including storage provisioning, monitoring, alerting, auditing, inventorying, etc.
• In addition to architecting and integrating a storage solution working with 3rd party vendors, the candidate will develop inhouse applications that will become part of the technology platform for the business.
• The ideal candidate will also design storage tools on problem management and preventive maintenance (alert and capacity management).
• Additionally, the candidate needs to understand storage virtualization, automation, storage provisioning, distributed and scaleout file systems, software defined storage solutions, emerging technologies in infrastructure automation, observability, etc.
• Ability to work as part of a global team is a requirement. In addition, the candidate must be able to listen to customer requirements and be able to advise, discuss and articulate technical solutions effectively.
• It would also be desirable that the candidate has relevant experience (intermediate to advanced preferred) in deploying, operating, and administering a Linux operating system in an enterprise level ecosystem.

Required skills / knowledge:

• Experienced in software development and proficient in one or more of the following programming languages - Python, Perl
• Experience with SDLC (software development lifecycle) best practices with large software development projects is a must.
• Good knowledge in Computer Science fundamental
• Good organizational and English communication skills, prioritization of multiple projects and objective.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with Object Oriented concepts and SQL programming
• Knowledge of storage technologies and disciplines namely, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, SCSI, NFS, CIFS, POSIX, Object Storage, SAS, SATA, FLASH (NVME, SSD, etc.), RAID, Erasure Coding, Distributed/Scale-out Storage, File systems, High-availability methods, working knowledge of databases etc. are strongly preferred. Understanding networking protocols and connectivity preferred.
• System Architecture experience within enterprise UNIX (RHEL)/Windows Server environments, Container environments (RH Open Shift/Kubernetes/Docker, etc.) and Cloud environments (Azure/AWS/Google) is highly desirable but not required.
• Understanding of Client/Server, Scale-out architectures, virtualization, performance, and capacity management strongly preferred.
• Effective troubleshooting skills across O/S, network, and storage.
• Knowledge in the following vendor products is preferred but not required: NetApp 7mode/cDOT/Engenio, IBM Spectrum Scale (aka GPFS), HDS Storage Arrays/HCP, EMC Atmos, Brocade SAN/FOS, Veritas Storage Foundation Suite, Sybase, DB2.
• Skills Proficiency: Advanced (in Programming)/Intermediate + (in Storage and/or Linux)