Senior Ruby on Rails Developer

6 months - REMOTE WORK - Rome based Client (Outside IR35) - €450 per day

My client is undergoing an internal review of all roles, responsibilities, and processes. These changes will impact corporate IT systems and must be planned and implemented in an orderly manner to support the organization.

I am looking for a Senior Ruby on Rails Developer to analyse the impact of the review on Ruby on Rails applications. The vendor will design and develop the solutions to adopt the changes in the impacted applications.

Specifically, the consultant will:

• Analyse the information available on the organizational changes and embed the requirements
• Once the design is internally approved, develop the required changes
• Support the UAT of the changes, addressing bugs or other issues
• Support the deployment of the changes to Production
• Continue iterative improvements of Ruby on Rails applications
• Provide technical knowledge in engineering, releasing and maintaining web-based enterprise applications
• Update the IT Knowledge Base, ensuring application documentation is up-to-date and available
• Any other support duties as required

Professional requirements

The consultant must have minimum 6 years enterprise development experience, of which 2 years of experience will be with the Ruby on Rails Development Framework using Behaviour/Test Driven Development methodology. The consultant must have built APIs for Ruby on Rails applications. Participation in open source projects is desirable.

Qualification and experience

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or related discipline
• At least six years of professional work experience
• Experience of managing support tickets, providing feeding, ensuring efficient turnaround of issues.

Technical Requirements:

• Excellent development skills in Ruby on Rails and other web technology platforms
• Solid UNIX Systems Administration skills
• Container architecture such as Kubernetes
• Design and debugging of TCP/IP(v4) networks
• Configuration Management
• Virtualization with VMware ESX
• PostgreSQL 9.x administration
• Knowledge of GIT versioning systems
• Nginx/haproxy
• Operating Systems: Mac OSX, Linux, Windows

Languages

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English essential.

In accordance with the Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003, this position is advertised based upon Skillsearch Limited having first sought approval of its client to find candidates for this position. Skillsearch Limited acts as both an Employment Agency and Employment Business