Senior Software Engineer

We have various exciting opportunities arising at our site in Gloucester for Software Engineers, primarily a variety of Defence, Cyber and Intelligence programmes.

This company will provide you with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career with us, but equally important you can also enjoy a strong work life balance. To ensure this we offer a flexible work schedule, hybrid work and a comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy fulfilling life in and outside of work.

A range of specialisms exist in this essential and rewarding role. You may specialise in just one area or operate across multiple Software Development disciplines with a specific focus on the Cyber domain.

Typically, you will be involved in one or more of the following:

• Conducting software development activities under the direction of your Software Engineering Lead.
• Design and development of tests to debug software.
• Working with customer requirements that are to be programmed into business/mission applications, whilst utilising the appropriates standards, processes and tools throughout the entire development lifecycle.
• Correction of program errors.
• Preparation of operating instructions.
• Documentation of program development.
• Analysis of system capabilities to resolve questions of program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques, and controls.
• Championing automation in the form of IaC, CI/CD and test automation.

As a Software Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in developing cutting edge Dev Sec Ops  software systems and applications. You’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation and safeguarding digital infrastructures in the UK.

• Experience of developing on Linux.
• Thorough understanding of mocking and unit testing frameworks such as JUnit 5.x (Jupiter).
• Experienced with Git version control.
• Proficient in Agile Development using SCRUM.
• Experience of Oracle/ Relational Databases and/or Mongo.
• Experience of Git Lab CI/CD Pipelines.
• Experience of Apache NiFi.
• Experience in the use of Atlassian Suite - Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.
• Experience of Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Experience of Hibernate.
• Experience of AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate, IAM, S3, Lambda.
• Experience of CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments.

• Experience of developing software for cloud deployment – specifically AWS.
• Developing software for microservice and or serverless architectures.
• Understanding the development challenges moving on-prem workload to cloud.
• Experience of JSF (Primefaces).

We would love to hear from you if you have any of the following Qualifications or

Certifications: