Senior Ruby on Rails Developer (Lead, ROR, Developer)

Our client is a media company. They are looking to bolster their capability in the Ruby on Rails space, through the retention of a senior Ruby on Rails developer - on a contract basis - for twelve months.

This individual will be accountable for leading a small team - guiding their work and also managing/documenting outcomes and capturing knowledge as the team progresses through a number of projects over the next year.

In essence this role can be divided into two parts:

i. Initial Due Diligence: performing an audit of the existing landscape and proposing, where required, a roadmap for changes(s) to be made. Then activity to drive these changes through to completion.
ii. Ongoing activity to keep services running in a stable manner and providing business as usual continuity, with the appropriate DR in place where necessary

As an experienced practitioner within the space the individual will have a roving brief;
but the following key areas of accountability will likely be in scope:

- Auditing the existing landscape and proposing changes where required
- Driving thru' such changes to completion - working with the immediate team and other development teams across the org
- Supporting current project work - already underway - across all areas of the project life cycle
- Documenting and capturing details on in flight projects and the BAU set up, and their outcomes ie facilitating strong knowledge transfer from project teams into the wider organisation.
- Providing best in class technical steer and counsel - based on experience elsewhere.
- The individual occupying this role will be a confident and articulate technical professional - knowledgeable in this particular space, and be able to guide the rest of the team. They need to be practical and pragmatic, hands on and happy to get stuck in'.

Skills/Experience:

- Strong Development Experience with Ruby on Rails, ideally via a number of implementations (5+ years ideally - with experience of Ruby 4.0 [release June 2013] or Ruby 4.1 [release April 2014]).
- Experience - with demonstrable examples - of using webservices (REST), RSpec and other associate services/tooling - such as Puppet, Sinatra, iii. Git (source control system), Heroku etc..
- Also experience in AWS/EC2 deployment, Puppet and Capistrano would be a necessity as would experience with Solr
- Be comfortable working with Nginx, Solr, Thin, Unicorn, Sinatra, Redis, Memcached and MySQL
- Front End Development experience (JQuery, JavaScript, CSS etc ) would be beneficial
- Project Management experience (5+ years) - and experience in leading small teams would be a real bonus

Keywords: Senior Ruby Developer, Ruby Development, Lead Ruby on Rails Developer, ROR, Rails, Grails, REST, Senior Developer, Head of Development, Ruby Developer.