We are recruiting for a Software Engineer on contract to work for a leading Defence organisation. The role can be based in their Guildford, Surrey or Newcastle offices 3 days per week and remote for 2.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The candidate will also need to be able to achieve or have SC clearance.
Role Overview
The Software Engineer will join our collaborative, forward-thinking Agile Scrum team, working on innovative Geospatial software, using the latest cloud-based technologies. The engineer will be involved in every stage of the software development life cycle, from initial design through development, testing, and deployment, delivering robust, scalable cloud-based services.
The role is based at our Newcastle office. Flexible working arrangements are in place for the team. The successful candidate is expected to be in the office 3 days a week, with the opportunity to work 2 days from home.
Responsibilities
Develop high-quality, readable, scalable and easily maintained code, using Java and related technologies, meeting requirements and coding standards.
Develop reusable patterns and encourage innovation that will enhance team velocity.
Contribute to quality assurance by writing unit and automated tests.
Conduct design and code reviews to ensure code developed meets coding best practices guidelines, unit testing, security, and scalability and maintainability guidelines
Ensure code is sufficiently documented and share knowledge of solutions implemented.
Participate in sprint planning, reviews, and daily stand-ups in a true Agile environment, contributing to agile based estimating.
Work with the scrum team to meet the sprint commitments
Skill Set
Essential
Cloud Services development
Desirable
DevSecOps awareness using tools such as Tekton, ArgoCD, SonarQube
Red Hat Openshift container platform or Kubernetes
Front End development using Angular
This is an umbrella contract, the role is Inside IR35