.NET Full Stack Engineer

On behalf of DfE, we are looking for a .NET Full Stack Engineer (Inside IR35) for a until 31st March contract based Hybrid / in London/Sheffield.

As a .NET Full Stack Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Live services remain operational and supported in accordance with agreed SLAs.
• Incident, problem and change management processes are implemented and operated.
• ServiceNow records, support processes and escalation routes
• Defects in C#, .NET, Ruby, Blazor and associated application components triaged and resolved.
• Minor enhancements and service improvements delivered through agreed change process.
• Technical debt backlog maintained and reduced where agreed.
• Azure infrastructure managed and maintained.
• CI/CD pipelines operational and maintained.
• Monitoring, logging and alerting implemented and continuously improved.
• Cost, performance and capacity optimisation activities completed and reported.
• Security, Compliance & Vulnerability Management
• Service Monitoring & Operational Resilience
• Documentation, Knowledge Management & Runbooks
• Service Management & Governance

Essential

• Strong hands-on experience developing, maintaining and supporting C# / .NET applications, including defect resolution, minor enhancements, refactoring and technical debt reduction.
• Ability to work across application layers, including front-end components such as Blazor and service/API integration where required.
• Ability to maintain and troubleshoot existing Ruby components, including defect triage, dependency updates and operational fixes.
• Experience supporting live digital services, investigating production issues, resolving defects and contributing to incident, problem and change management processes.
• Experience applying secure coding practices, resolving dependency vulnerabilities, supporting patching activity and addressing security findings.
• Ability to write and maintain automated tests, support regression testing, and ensure changes meet agreed acceptance criteria before release.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, DfE encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, DfE welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".