Senior Software Engineer - Marine Training Systems

Expleo Group; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Expleo Academy training

Competitive benefits

Collaborative team culture

Disability Confident employer

Job summary

Expleo Group is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Marine Training Systems to design, develop and sustain advanced training software used in secure defence environments. You will contribute to software development, verification, system integration and deployment across naval training platforms.

The role focuses on sustaining operational training solutions, including software releases, patches and customer deployments, working within multidisciplinary engineering teams on-site.

Qualifications

• Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering or related STEM discipline.
• Experience with software development in C and/or C++.
• Experience in debugging, verification and system integration.

Responsibilities

• Develop, modify and maintain software for training and simulation systems.
• Perform testing, verification and defect resolution.
• Support software patching, server updates and system maintenance.
• Participate in system integration with hardware interfaces and networks.
• Assist in releases and deployment activities.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Debugging & troubleshooting

Software testing

Windows server

VMware virtualization

System integration

Documentation

Active Directory

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering/CS/Systems

Tools

Visual Studio

SVN/TortoiseSVN

Windows OS

VMware

Job description

Expleo is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Marine Training Systems to support the development, maintenance, integration and deployment of advanced training and simulation systems operating within secure defence environments.

The role is focused on sustaining and enhancing operational simulation and training solutions throughout their support lifecycle. Working as part of a multidisciplinary engineering team, the successful candidate will contribute to software development, verification, system integration, release activities and customer deployments across a range of naval and defence training platforms.

This position offers the opportunity to work on complex, mission-critical systems used by defence customers, supporting software updates, capability enhancements and the ongoing reliability of operational training environments.

This role is based full-time on-site, working directly alongside customer engineering and assurance teams throughout programme execution.

Responsibilities

• Develop, modify and maintain software applications supporting training and simulation systems.
• Perform software testing, verification and defect resolution activities.
• Support software patching, server updates and system maintenance activities.
• Participate in system integration activities involving hardware interfaces, networks and external systems.
• Support software releases through established acceptance and deployment processes including FAT, TRR, TCR and customer site deployment.
• Investigate and resolve complex technical issues affecting operational systems.
• Produce and maintain technical documentation and engineering artefacts.
• Support deployment, installation and troubleshooting activities at customer locations.
• Work collaboratively with systems, software, integration and support teams.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of engineering and support processes.
• Ensure compliance with quality, safety and security requirements.

Qualifications

• Degree qualified in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Systems Engineering or a related STEM discipline.
• Equivalent industry experience will be considered where supported by relevant technical expertise and engineering delivery experience.

Essential Skills

• Strong software development skills in C and/or C++.
• Software debugging, troubleshooting and fault investigation.
• Software testing and verification.
• Microsoft Visual Studio development environment.
• Windows operating systems and applications support.
• Configuration and version control using SVN/Tortoise SVN or equivalent tools.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Technical documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Active Directory administration and support.
• VMware virtualisation technologies.
• Windows Server administration.
• Software deployment and release management.
• Maritime or naval systems knowledge.
• Defence systems integration.
• Network configuration and troubleshooting.
• Security-focused software maintenance and patching.

Desired Skills Experience

• Significant experience in software engineering within a commercial, defence or regulated engineering environment.
• Experience developing software using C and/or C++.
• Experience supporting software verification and test activities.
• Experience maintaining and enhancing operational or deployed software systems.
• Experience working within structured release and deployment processes.
• Experience integrating software with hardware and networked systems.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex software defects.
• Experience working as part of multidisciplinary engineering teams.
• Defence sector experience.
• Maritime, naval or training systems experience.
• Experience within simulation or synthetic training environments.
• Active Directory administration experience.
• Experience working within secure facilities or classified environments.
• VMware administration or support experience.
• Experience supporting customer deployments and operational acceptance activities.
• Experience maintaining legacy software systems and mixed-language codebases.
• Experience integrating software with hardware interfaces and networked systems.
• ADA development experience.
• Training and simulation systems experience.

What Do I Need Before I Apply

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (SC).
• Willingness to work within secure defence facilities and controlled environments.
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer sites.
• Must be capable of working on operational support and maintenance activities for deployed systems.
• Must be eligible to work in the United Kingdom.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects
• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo
• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
• Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
• Communicating and promoting vacancies
• Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
• Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive