Working hours: 35 hours per week, Monday to Friday

Duration: Permanent

Location: Gloucester

Job Ref: 203747

About the role

Benefact Group are looking for a .NET Engineer with strong integration skills to join our Engineering Team in our Gloucester office at an exciting time. 

Key responsibilities

We are regularly updating our tools and technologies to the latest versions and using them to develop business critical solutions alongside .NET development. The intended target hosting is via Azure. We are also in the process of improving our working practices, using Agile and Scrum methodology to deliver value as early as possible. We use a range of server- and client-side technologies such as C# ASP.NET MVC, Entity Framework, Web API, Solr, Typescript, Vue.js and Bootstrap and Blazor.

Teams are now providing restful APIs for re-use across our IT landscape inline with our integration and API strategies. We are focused on building Integration Services with common re-usable services and custom integration applications where required in Azure API Management and other necessary Azure components.

The team are responsible for several development projects and maintenance of other key assets.

You will be able to provide excellent technical capacity and capability and engineering excellence to agile teams and enable rapid and high-quality outputs. Contributing to and increasing our library of Azure components.

We are regularly updating our tools and technologies to the latest versions and using them to develop business critical solutions alongside Dynamics and .NET development and engineering. The target hosting environment is Microsoft Azure.

You will ideally have experience scripting environments, developing with resiliency, scalability, performance, and cost optimisation in mind.

You will have an understanding of the DevOps lifecycle and how with a focus on automation, CICD practices we will release to production, reliable applications frequently inline with Scrum time-boxes.

You will have the benefit of using the latest hardware, and receiving MSDN and Pluralsight subscriptions to support your ongoing professional development.

It's not all about the technology (though we do enjoy it) - it is all about the customer and collaborating with our co-workers to deliver something of enduring and sustainable value.

We'd like you to help us to do that.

Knowledge, skills and experience

• Demonstrable knowledge of C#
• Demonstrable knowledge of .NET Framework, and Visual Studio.
• Strong knowledge of cloud development and deployment via Azure and/or AWS.
• Knowledge of Azure Integration Services and/or other Integration Platforms.
• Experience identifying and developing appropriate integration for mission critical services.
• Experience with Azure Active Directory, Application Gateway, AMI Management.

Desirable skills:

• Experience of working in an Agile environment, using concepts like Scrum, Kanban etc.
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines for building and deploying code (e.g. Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Jenkins etc.)
• Experience with unit / acceptance testing, infrastructure-as-code, QA practices (using ReSharper and code review), accessibility standards & testing, and source control (using Git).

What we offer

• A competitive salary - let's discuss it
• Hybrid working 
• Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
  
• Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
  
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
• A range of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
  
• Up to £400 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
  
• Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
• Full study support to gain professional qualifications
• Access to virtual GP
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

About us

Benefact Group is a unique international financial services Group made up of over 30 businesses. We are owned by a charity and have been the 3rd largest UK corporate donor over a decade*, having given away £250 million since 2014. We have ambitious plans to become the UK’s number one corporate donor, with strategic objectives in place to double the Group’s size.

We believe it’s essential to attract, empower, grow and reward talented people, offering fantastic opportunities for career and personal development. Our giving ethos, 135-year history and the diversity of what we do, has enabled us to build a culture of kindness, great ambition, and of passionate people driven to do better and be better.  

At Benefact Group, we are committed to creating an inclusive culture and building an environment where each and every one of us feels valued and respected. We are a community made up of people with a range of different backgrounds, abilities, perspectives, beliefs and interests and we value the strength this brings to us as a Group. We welcome applications from everyone.

If you need any additional support during the recruitment process, then please let us know.  

*Directory of Social Change’s UK Guides to Company Giving 2017-26