Software Engineer

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

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 DevSecOps software systems and applications. You'll be at the forefront of driving innovation and safeguarding digital infrastructures in the UK.

• Proficient in current Java, knowledge of other languages such as Python, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, React is a bonus.
• Experience of developing on Linux.
• Appreciation of mocking and unit testing frameworks such as JUnit 5.x (Jupiter).
• Experienced with Git version control.
• Knowledge of Agile Development using SCRUM.
• Understanding of Oracle/ Relational Databases and/or Mongo.
• Understanding of GitLab CI/CD Pipelines.
• Proficiency in the use of Atlassian Suite - Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.
• Understanding of Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Understanding of Hibernate.
• Desired Skills:
• Knowledge of developing software for cloud deployment - specifically AWS.
• Developing software for microservice and or serverless architectures.
• Understanding of CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments.
• Understanding the development challenges moving on-prem workload to cloud.
• Understanding of AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate, IAM, S3, Lambda.

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

These are useful but not strictly necessary.

• Oracle Java Certification.
• AWS Certification.
• ISTQB Certification.
• OSCP Certification.
• CCNA Certification.

This vacancy is being advertised by Optamor Limited. Optamor is a specialist Recruitment Process Outsourcing provider. We provide a flexible full recruitment solution which takes care of all recruitment requirements from planning to on-boarding. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.