Staff Software Engineer - DevSecOps & Cloud (4-Day Week)

Lockheed Martin Corporation; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A global aerospace and defense leader in Gloucester is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work on cutting-edge Defence, Cyber, and Intelligence programmes. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Java and experience with various programming languages, cloud deployments, and Agile methodologies. This role offers flexible working arrangements, competitive salaries, and a robust benefits package, including private medical insurance and educational assistance. Join a supportive team focused on innovation and the security of digital infrastructures.

Benefits

Private Medical Insurance

Competitive Pension

Dental

Critical Illness

Life Assurance

Travel Insurance

Employee discounts

Employee Assistance Program

Internal training and development

Reimbursement for professional membership

Enhanced maternity leave

Responsibilities

• Planning, conducting and coordinating software development activities.
• Working with customers and key stakeholders to identify requirements.
• Design and development of tests to debug software.
• Mentoring of junior engineers.
• Championing automation in the form of IaC, CI/CD and test automation.

Skills

Expert knowledge of current Java

Proficient in another language such as Python, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, React

Experience of developing on Linux

Advanced understanding of mocking and unit testing frameworks such as JUnit 5.x

Expert with Git version control

Proficient in Agile Development using SCRUM

Advanced knowledge of Oracle/Relational Databases and/or Mongo

Experience with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines

Experience of Apache NiFi

Experience in the use of Atlassian Suite - Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence

Experience of Elasticsearch and Kibana

Advanced knowledge of Hibernate

Advanced knowledge of AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate

Experience of CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments

Experience developing software for cloud deployment - specifically AWS

Experience developing software for microservice and or serverless architectures

Understanding the development challenges moving on-prem workload to cloud

Education

Oracle Java Certification

AWS Certification

ISTQB Certification

OSCP Certification

CCNA Certification

Job description

A global aerospace and defense leader in Gloucester is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to work on cutting-edge Defence, Cyber, and Intelligence programmes. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Java and experience with various programming languages, cloud deployments, and Agile methodologies. This role offers flexible working arrangements, competitive salaries, and a robust benefits package, including private medical insurance and educational assistance. Join a supportive team focused on innovation and the security of digital infrastructures.