Ruby on Rails Developer - Remote

Senior Ruby Developer

3 month contract with likely extension

Remote from within European timezones

Our client is a key section of the United Nations and they are looking for a Ruby developer to support their business objectives by providing expertise in software development

Specifically, the consultant will:

• Gather and analyse functional requirements from end-users and business analysts for new or enhancements for production systems

• Design and implement new Ruby on Rails web applications

• Provide expertise and support on bug fixing and minor change requests of live web applications developed in house

• Continue improvements of Ruby on Rails applications

• Provide technical knowledge in engineering, releasing and maintaining web-based enterprise applications

You will need solid enterprise development experience including 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.

Technical Wishlist:

• 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

This is an English speaking role

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