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Developer - Leeds, West Yorkshire

A little bit about our team

The Technology and Infrastructure team is responsible for delivering first class, leading edge solutions to the business. The team members are proactive, responsive business enablers that deliver competitive advantage by choosing, implementing and supporting the use of information technology. They take ownership of delivering the day to day workload, as well as exciting transformative projects. They are a delivery focused team, are fun to work with and have great relationships with internal teams and 3rd party suppliers.

This role is based at UKTV's dedicated development hub in Leeds. You will also work with the wider UKTV team based in the HQ in London.

Purpose of the role

We are looking for a hands-on developer who is passionate about developing scalable, highly available application solutions that leverage AWS services for Broadcast Media applications:

Working as a developer alongside various core business, and technical teams

Software development knowledge covering design patterns and programming best practices

Working with infrastructure and application development, aligned to industry best practice

Exposure to Agile software development

DevOps practices such as infrastructure as code, continuous integration and automated deployment

We are looking for someone who is/has...

Essential:

Solid commercial application development experience (JavaScript/Node.js)

Hands-on experience developing and deploying business software

Experience with building application using AWS services such as Lambda, EC2, S3, SQS, SNS, ECS/Fargate etc.

Experience with continuous integration code pipeline

Strong scripting skills (e.g. Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc.)

Experience with unit or automated testing tools (e.g. Mocha, Chai, Selenium)

Hands on familiarity with automated deployment using Terraform

Desirable:

Agile software development expert

Experience with configuration management platforms (e.g. Chef, Puppet or Ansible)

Experience of UI framework such as Angular

Exposure to Broadcast or OTT media workflows an advantage

Who you are

You enjoy collaboration.

You are adaptable with a "Can Do" attitude.

You can demonstrate ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

AWS Developing on AWS or AWS Certified Developer Associate (preferred).