Senior Software Engineer

Northrop Grumman Corporation; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 77,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense technology company located in Cheltenham is seeking an experienced professional to design and manage mission-critical systems. Responsibilities include automating deployment and supporting CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's Degree in a related field, AWS certification, and experience with DevOps tools. Flexible working arrangements are offered along with a comprehensive benefits package including healthcare and career development opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible working schedules

Flexible Benefits Package

Employee Incentive Programme

Career Development

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science based subject or equivalent experience.
• AWS Certified at Practitioner or Associate level.
• Experience in creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain mission-critical systems.
• Automate system deployment and operation using Infrastructure as Code.
• Drive decisions to implement best fit tools for project problems.

Skills

Amazon Web Services Certified

DevOps CI/CD pipelines

Collaboration and communication skills

Cloud experience

Virtualized systems management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Elastic Stack

Job description

UK CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: Relocation assistance may be available
CLEARANCE TYPE: UK-Highest Level of Government Clearance
TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time
Salary: £50,700 - £76,100

Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity to Deliver the Nation’s Security. Together.

Collaborating with Architects, Software Developers and Testers, we align complex systems to exacting standards and deliver mission value that transforms client systems, whilst delivering improvement in reliability, cost and organisational agility.

Your Responsibilities:

• Work as a part of a team to design, build and maintain mission critical systems
• Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
• Support the Leads to drive decisions to implement best fit tools to solve complex project problems effectively.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the SDLC (software development life cycle).
• Migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud ready and implement micro services architecture.
• Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications

Your Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science based subject, equivalent qualification or equivalent relevant experience;
• Amazon Web Services Certified to Practitioner or Associate level with experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud based solutions;
• Experience of creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo
• Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python;
• Experience of administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare or Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift;
• Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaborating tooling e.g. Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
• Strong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.
• Cloud experience and awareness in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
• Platforms Experience of designing, deploying and administering Linux or Unix based solutions would be advantageous e.g. using virtualisation, containerisation, Infrastructure as Code
• Experience with performance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana, CheckMK.

Your Benefits:

• Flexible working schedules - we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Talk to us at the application stage about any scheduling preferences you may have.
• Flexible Benefits Package – choose which NGUKL benefits you want to satisfy your personal needs. Core Benefits provided for you are Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Benefits you can flex include Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, and Health Assessments.
• Employee Incentive Programme – exceptional performance is recognised through our annual incentive programme which is awarded to top performers who excel
• Career Development – opportunity for ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities

Your Future Team:

Joining the Infrastructure Discipline gives a great variety of opportunity, working with the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems.

Our focused and flexible Infrastructure Team consists of industry leading practitioners in engineering and systems administration across all specialisms and experience. We work with multiple customer sets and system classifications, on both public cloud and on premise. Collaboratively we deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems, providing our team a broad range of experiences from which to develop new skills and learning across the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets.

Diversity is at the heart of our success. Our team share experience, knowledge and new thinking gained from a wide range of backgrounds perspective, culture, gender, race, age and many other elements across several industries. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from communities currently under-represented within our industry. We treat everyone with respect and foster safe and inclusive environments.

About Our Responsibilities:

Our customers operate in unique environments which offer new and exciting challenges every day, cultivating a place where you can learn and thrive, working alongside the best minds in industry. We’ll give you space to develop your career, where your ideas can shape the future of our dynamic business.

We promote collaboration to achieve more than we could imagine, together. And within a respectful and inspirational environment, we value what you say and do.

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Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.