Software Engineer; Principal & Lead; Perm - SC & DV

Software Engineer (Principal & Senior) - Active SC, DV Clearable

• Location
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  Remote whilst SC, Cheltenham 4 days on-site once DV
• Salary
  :
  Lead, £90,000 - £100,000 / Principal, £110,000 - £130,000
• Clearance
  :
  Must have a minimum of active SC with ability to go through DV.

Sanderson Government & Defence are partnering with a specialist organisation at the forefront of data moderniastion across the Public Sectors.

As a Lead or Principal Software Engineer, you will help lead the development of backend platforms and services for secure clients leveraging the latest commercial and open-source technologies in private and public cloud environments.

• Design, develop, document, deploy and enhance features to our platforms and services that meet functional / non-functional business requirements
• Actively participate in the team's elaboration and estimation of user stories
• Build frequent, small releases to maintain the team's momentum
• Collaborate closely with other engineers in our cross-functional feature teams; ensuring that others can cover for you, and that you can cover for them
• Build, optimise and operate our Continuous Deployment pipelines
• Maintain operational responsibility for the services that your team owns

You will have demonstrated the following competencies to the proficiency level appropriate to the seniority of the role;

• Fluent in writing JAVA coding and experience with JVM compatible languages (Kotlin, Scala)
• Experience with Kafka or a similar platform.
• Experience working in Agile Dev Sec Ops  environments and Zero Trust Architecture
• Integrating with backing services, such as PostgreSQL, Redis or S3
• Good engineering practices including continuous delivery, clean code, documentation, defensive programming, automated testing and code reviews
• Using Git Hub/Git Lab/Atlassian Suite for source control
• Test Driven Development with appropriate tools and frameworks
• Experience with micro-service design patterns
• Experience in Big Data technologies

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.