Senior Software Developer C and Linux

System Recruitment
Lymington, Hampshire, United Kingdom
Last week
£250 – £350 pd

Salary

£250 – £350 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Posted
18 May 2026 (Last week)

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

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