SYSTEM RECRUITMENT LIMITED
Senior Software Developer C and Linux
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Senior Software Developer C and Linux
Job Title
A leading tech company specialising in data management have an immediate requirement for an experienced C/Linux Software Developer for an initial 6 month contract
Key Skills
- Software Developer
- Software Engineer
- C
- Linux
- Autotools
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- Terraform
- OpenTofu
- API
Location
Hybrid but must be able to reach the office near Lymington - SO41 9AZ
Rate
Negotiable
Essential Skills
- Experience developing application code in C on Linux
- Working with Linux build systems, (mainly Autotools)
- Identity & Authentication knowledge:
- LDAP / Active Directory integration (e.g. via OpenLDAP's libldap)
- OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 (e.g. via liboauth2)
- Understanding of credential handling, token validation, and session management
- Awareness of identity-related security concerns (trust boundaries, configuration errors, credential leakage)
- Automated Deployment:
- Experience with automated provisioning (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu)
- Familiarity with common cloud platforms and virtualisation environments (e.g. AWS, Azure, OpenStack, VMware)
- Exposure to cloud-init or equitant system initialisation frameworks and how they operate at a low level
- Understanding of secure configuration delivery and deployment auditability of newly provisioned systems
- API Design & Implementation (maybe):
- Experience / Familiarity with:
- Working with OpenAPI (Swagger) specifications to define service interfaces
- Implementing APIs in C or similarly low-level environments, without reliance on full-stack frameworks
- Designing for defensive input handling and error management
- Experience / Familiarity with:
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