Software Engineer, SRE

Join us as a Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to take on an exciting new career challenge
• Day-to-day, you'll be engineering and maintaining innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career while building a wide network of stakeholders
• We're offering this role at associate level

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll be working within a feature team to engineer software, scripts and tools, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working software solutions
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations

The skills you'll need

To take on this role, you’ll need a background in software engineering, software design, and architecture, and an understanding of how your area of expertise supports our customers.

You’ll also need:

• A motivated individual with a strong interest in site reliability and operations and a demonstrated eagerness to learn across a broad range of systems and technologies
• Proven delivery of relentlessly reducing TOIL via automation enabling our customers to better undertake their roles
• Prior experience of coding, preferably Python/Java, plus a good understanding of Linux OS, shell programming, REST API’s and experience of Cloud
• Knowledge of DevOps and Engineering Platforms i.e. GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Artifactory etc
• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance