Senior Data Engineer

Equal Experts is an innovative consultancy specialising in the delivery of custom software solutions for blue-chip enterprise and public sector clients across a range of industry sectors. We work on important projects for our clients, deliver market-leading propositions across the digital, online and mobile channels, and are recognised for our leadership in the application of agile and lean delivery methods to assure delivery. We have offices in Australia, India, South Africa, the UK, the EU and the USA.  We’re seeking Frontend Engineers with proven senior-level experience to join the Equal Experts network.  As a member of the team you will work alongside our clients to help design and deliver solutions to meet business requirements and help to improve the effectiveness of the clients' software delivery capability. And of course, all this happens in a consultative, collaborative fashion – in keeping with our values.  You should have extensive experience delivering software on commercial projects backed up by good knowledge of agile practices such as TDD, pair programming and CI/CD to name a few.  A growth-based, learning mindset is a must coupled with a passion for technology.  This role involves working in teams that use modern agile technical practices - including continuous integration and deployment and fast feedback loops - to deliver timely and pragmatic solutions, as well as helping others to do their jobs in a more effective way.  Responsibilities  * Working with the client and the team to determine system requirements and how best to deliver them.  * Delivery of software using agile (pair programming, TDD, CI/CD, etc) practices  * Automation of system infrastructure and deployments.  * Production support of systems you are working on (You build it, you run it).  * Advocating agile practices to the client organisation.  * Mentoring client team members.  * Helping improve the team and clients’ delivery capabilities.  Required Skills  * Extensive, diversified experience developing, maintaining and operating enterprise scale distributed systems.  * Expert-level knowledge of web, JavaScript, and the associated tooling. Experience with * JavaScript frameworks such as ReactJS, VueJS, and AngularJS are highly desirable.  * Up-to-date knowledge of semantic HTML & CSS.  * Hands-on experience with building performant, secure and accessible applications * Hands-on experience with test-driven development and other forms of automated testing. * Strong understanding of the principles underlying agile development and an understanding of the various approaches that can be effective in realising these principles in different contexts. * Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively while working remotely with globally distributed teams.  * Strong interpersonal skills, including a desire to collaborate and share knowledge with other team members, including client team members. This also includes the ability to work collectively towards a common goal without insisting on a given course of action. Nice To Have  * Hands-on experience developing distributed systems including micro frontend architectures. ● Hands-on experience developing and running large scale production systems ideally in containerised/cloud environments using either AWS, GCP or Azure.

About Us Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.   Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.   Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com. Role Summary Sophos Firewall is the flagship product of Sophos, operating in the network security domain to safeguard customer network traffic when deployed in router or switch mode. It processes traffic across all layers, from L2 to L7. As a mature yet continuously evolving product adapting to the changing cybersecurity landscape, it offers the opportunity to work on L2/L3/L4 protocol stacks, high availability, SD-WAN, kernel-space data paths, and highly scalable design challenges handling millions of network flows, among other areas. You’ll be a part of NSG engineering group. In this senior role, you will be part of an innovative engineering team, designing and developing features for the next generation firewall product. Your skills and experience will be put to good use in continually modernizing, scaling, upgrading, and innovating existing platforms that keep pace with the fast-moving industry. We have a highly collaborative work culture where you will work within and across different scrum teams to architect/design/develop/maintain features and solutions for the network security products that protect millions of end users.