Ruby on Rails Web Portal Developer

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Skyscape is the new standard for a greener, smarter, more cost effective cloud solution and our services are secure, sustainable and compliant. Our scalable products are UK sovereign and offer the best price performance in class. We strive to build long term relationships leveraging value, integrity and social responsibility to enable our clients in the UK Public Sector to profit from our unique use of partner technology, services and innovation in the Skyscape Cloud Alliance.

Skyscape's cloud solutions help to enable the UK Public Sector to transform the provision of IT services into a lean, elastic, assured, green utility by providing a genuine on-demand cloud computing service. With a range of UK sovereign services that are easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave, Skyscape's solutions reduce both the risk and cost of delivering IT.

The role.

Skyscape's Web Portal Developers are responsible for aiding the delivery of the core Skyscape Web Portal. This is an exciting opportunity to help build the central point of access to the Skyscape Cloud platform that will drive the majority of customer interactions with the company.

Reporting to the Head of Automation and Orchestration, Web Portal Developers will perform several key activities:

Design and develop the core Skyscape Web Portal.

Work with project management to design project delivery plans using Agile methodology.

Develop Purchasing, Reporting, Billing and Cloud Management interfaces.

Develop integration to the Core Skyscape Management platform.

Responsible for the deployment of the Web Portal and continuous integration thereof.

Develop the platform in line with the business strategy.

Develop RESTful web service API's for client and management access.

Input into product evaluation and selection for the management platform.

Input into functional requirements.

Deliver on-going support for the portal.

Define supporting documentation for design, configuration and on-going support.

Provide Subject Matter Expert level support to internal teams.

Work with the automation teams to define integration points.

Skills and experience:

3+ years professional web based application development experience.

2+ year experience in native OOP and MVC design and development patterns.

2+ years Ruby development experience or minimum 3 years PHP with MVC.

Solid understanding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), AJAX and web 2.0 patterns.

2+ years MySQL 5+ experience.

Linux (Ubuntu) system administration experience, command line, (Apache, MySQL, RoR Passenger).

Agile environment experience.

Be prepared to learn fast and be responsible for modules.

Version Control (Git preferred but SVN acceptable).

Problem solver.

Disciplined, organised and self-motivated.

Useful experience, but not mandatory:

Caching.

Responsive design (HTML 5, CSS 2/3, jQuery).

Devise.

LDAP and Active Directory.

Multi-tenant application design and implementation.

Experience with SSO frameworks.

Test driven development.

Experience of platform as a service technologies such as VMware CloudFoundry.

Demonstrable experience of at least one of the following scripting languages: VBS, PowerShell, Perl, Python, Ruby.

Experience of working within an ITIL environment.

Understanding of reporting, having written custom reports before.

Applicants need to be aware that they will be required to undergo and successfully complete a formal UK security clearance process.

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