Software Engineer - SC Cleared

This role requires a minimum of SC Clearance to apply.

Responsibilities:

Working as part of a high performing team candidates will be responsible for migrating, developing and deploying new Cloud applications for a variety of Defence and Cyber Security Programmes. Working with well-understood technologies you will translate business visions, goals, objectives and high-level commissioning requirements into system designs and solutions. You will take ownership of solutioning activities for major opportunities within delivery programmes and manage the solution design process from initial concepts through to transition into operations. You will own the end to end solution architecture for allocated projects, identifying and engaging all stakeholders, suppliers and delivery teams that need to contribute. You will develop elements of technical strategy, roadmaps and vision that align to board approved business cases, policies and wider Enterprise standards. You will make design trades and decisions characterised by managed levels of risk and complexity. You will provide Technical Design Authority and Governance for technical solution architectures for allocated programmes and projects. You will resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, taking into account all views and opinions. You will maintain effective relationships and deal openly with all key stakeholders, taking into account the needs of all stakeholders. You will provide technical consultancy for new initiatives, to assist in the definition of business requirements or technical strategies. You will ensure proposed solutions are aligned with key non-functional requirements relating to, amongst other things, resilience, availability, performance, and scalability. You will provide hands on leadership to protect scheduling commitments and outcomes.Essentials Skills and Experience: Skilled in Agile methodologies and tools including Scrum, Kanban, JIRA, Confluence. Strong experience with Cloud technologies and services (AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform). Good knowledge of CI/CD practices with Jenkins, GitLab and/or GitHub IaC development with Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible and/or Puppet. Good knowledge of container technologies and orchestration engines Docker / Rocket Kubernetes / OpenShift. Knowledge and/or experience with Zero Trust and Micro Services Architectures. Proficient in Java and other languages such as Python. Experience in full-stack system design. Experience in testing frameworks. Experience in developing on Linux and/or Windows platform development. Experience with Oracle Relational Databases and Mongo. Designing solutions that fit within business and technical constraints. Familiarity with DevOps and DevSecOps philosophies, including secure design and implementation.

Desirable Skills:

Hands on Leadership experience providing clear guidance and architectural vision. Planning, coordinating software development activities. Self-driven and self-motivated. Taking ownership of assured outcome delivery. A superior attention to detail. Strong analytical, problem solving and organisational skills.