2 Bibliographic Software Engineering vacancies, University of Edinburgh

Hi folks,

I hope you don't mind me bringing to your attention these two software=20=

engineering posts advertised at the University of Edinburgh in EDINA's=20=

Bibliographic and Multimedia Services team?:

Software Engineer, Salary =A330,728 to =A336,661
http://edin.ac/1kAhdvZ

Software Engineer, Salary =A325,759 - =A329,837
http://edin.ac/1kAhijw

(If the links don't work, go to https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/ and use=
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references 026376 and 026399, respectively)

Cheers,

Ben


From the job advertisements:

Would you like to build online services to support higher and further=20=

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We need a developer to help implement and maintain innovative virtual l=
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services, delivered to higher education institutions across the UK. Thi=
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excellent opportunity to join a talented and friendly group of software=
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engineers, helping to develop our services further and contribute to ne=
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projects. We do object-oriented programming, keep our data in relationa=
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databases and search servers, and use web frameworks to design our inte=
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Most of us develop on Linux or Mac platforms, and our services are deli=
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from a mix of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Solaris servers.=20=


You should be a graduate in a computing-related discipline, or have rel=
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experience, with significant experience of web application development.=
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skills will include object-oriented programming in a language such as J=
ava or=20
Perl.

Knowledge of web services or machine-to-machine interfaces (e.g. SRU, O=
AI-PMH,=20
REST), repository software (e.g. DSpace, Eprints), would be an advantag=
e - but=20
most important is initiative along with good analysis and problem-solvi=
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skills, so that you can react in an informed and creative way to proble=
ms and=20
new requirements.

Benefits of working at the University include flexible working, an exce=
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pension, career prospects and generous holiday provision.

This post is on a fixed term basis for 2 years.

Closing date: Thursday 20th March 2014 at 5pm