Software Developer

Software Developer - Glasgow - Inside IR35 - Hybrid

Day Rate - Up to £472

Duration - 12 months

Harvey Nash's FS Client are hiring a Software Developer to support in designing and 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:

• Designing and developing highly available and scalable solutions to manage the firm-wide storage repository including storage provisioning, monitoring, alerting, auditing, inventorying, etc.
• Architecting and integrating a storage solution while working with 3rd party vendors, and developing in-house applications that will become part of the technology platform for the business.
• Designing storage tools for problem management and preventive maintenance (alert and capacity management).
• Understanding storage virtualization, automation, storage provisioning, distributed and scale-out file systems, software-defined storage solutions, and emerging technologies in infrastructure automation and observability.
• Working as part of a global team and effectively communicating customer requirements and technical solutions.
• Relevant experience (intermediate to advanced preferred) in deploying, operating, and administering a Linux operating system in an enterprise-level ecosystem is desirable.

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 in large software development projects.
• Good knowledge in Computer Science fundamentals.
• Good organizational and English communication skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple projects and objectives.

Desirable:

• Familiarity with Object-Oriented concepts and SQL programming.
• Knowledge of storage technologies including Fibre Channel, ISCSI, SCSI, NFS, CIFS, POSIX, Object Storage, SAS, SATA, FLASH (NVME, SSD, etc.), RAID, Erasure Coding, Distributed/Scale-out Storage, File systems, and High-availability methods.
• 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.
• Effective troubleshooting skills across O/S, network, and storage.
• Knowledge of 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).