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SalarySalary: £39,267 - £45,546 ( £46,616 - £52,895 Including Market Supplement)
Hours/Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment Until March 2026
As a TEI Dev Ops Engineer you will be employed by Northumbria Police, attached to the NEROCU, but will sit within the UK-wide TEI network of like-minded individuals who thrive on leveraging technology to solve complex problems with a passion for public safety:
As no two operations are the same, your days will be extremely varied and fulfilling. Depending on the complex operations at hand, you will always need to think outside the box to deploy creative capability solutions.
Day-to-day you will collaborate with like-minded individuals developing technical capabilities. You will collectively work alongside project managers and associated technical subject matter experts.
What you’ll do
Capability development: to meet operational requirements you will be working alongside other Engineers to carry out capability development. This will include utilising existing capability, adapting and uplifting current capability, or developing new technology to respond to new challenges. You will use a variety of prototyping methods to design, build and integrate solutions into existing systems, ensuring they are fit for operational use.
Innovate: you will work with the wider network and commercial suppliers to create new, bespoke innovative solutions, and partake in product research and proposals to push existing boundaries. Where required, you will identify opportunities to optimise development processes and deliver service improvements.
Fulfil operational requirements needs: you will ensure all capability development (and associated documentation) is in line with project specifications to meet operational requirements. Utilising yours and your team’s technical expertise, you will work collaboratively with capability users to understand their needs and guide the user to the most suitable solution.
Provide technical guidance: supported by your Manager and Team, you will respond to technical questions and make recommendations around the best technology to utilise in specific operations.
Highlight operational gaps: you will analyse business requirements to identify unmet operational demands and intelligence requirements / opportunity areas for future investment in capability development.
Protect sensitive equity: to keep covert policing safe during live operations, you will ensure equity protection guidelines are followed and covert policing techniques are adhered to.
What you’ll bring
The types of technology we use are extremely broad and we do not expect you have experience working with them all, but you should have knowledge to understand how three of the following impacts data collection capabilities:
Vulnerability research.
Exploit development.
Penetration testing.
Operating System internals (windows, iOS or Android).
Database Architecture.
Low level languages development (Assembly).
Electronics Engineering.
DevOps.
Cloud Architecture
You have an interest in technology that would demonstrate knowledge or interest in the following:
Involvement in CTF events and similar platforms.
OSINT.
Anonymising technologies and techniques.
Digital and/or analogue electronics, including microcontrollers.
Virtualisation technologies.
Systems Engineering.
Practical Red/Blue teaming concepts.
Experience or interest in researching and developing technology-based solutions.
A passion for learning and growth and a desire to learn new skills; you are committed to specialist development while in post. You also regularly keep up to date with the latest developments in technology, including industry standards.
Understand that the nature of investigations can be very fluid and evolving and there could be times where longer or unsocial hours may be required.
Qualified/or in your final year of a degree in a Computer Science related discipline or possess equivalent high-level experience of Computer Science fundamentals.
Experience in common programming languages e.g., C, Python.
Enjoy working collaboratively. You take pride in your strong interpersonal skills, and your ability to communicate and build impactful relationships.
Able to work under pressure, prioritising workloads and working to tight timescales within a dynamic environment.
The role will be a full-time dedicated agile role based within the ROCU in the vicinity of Sunderland. Travel around the region and the UK may be required as dictated by operational demands. A UK Driving Licence will be required.
This post would suit a graduate who can meet the above criteria. A development pathway is in place to support a graduate over the initial 2 years, Once the stages of the pathway are met supervised by a senior engineer and TEI manager, an increase in salary will be rewarded within the current banding.
Just so you know
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management (MV) and Security (SC) vetting, (willingness to undertake DV is required but can be during employment) therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting and medical clearance.
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