Senior Software Engineer

Senior Software Engineer – £65,000 per year – Weymouth (Hybrid working)

FryerMiles are delighted to be partnering with a global defence business to assist with the recruitment of a Senior Software Engineer to join their team based in Weymouth.

The successful candidate will join an extremely capable development team, adopting more Agile methods with DevOps playing an increasingly important role as you scale up the level of Continuous Integration and Automation in the clients delivery pipelines.

Our client has an immediate and ongoing requirement for a passionate Senior Software Engineer with strong software development skills and equally strong DevOps skills. The ideal candidate will be a Software Engineer who understands what a developer requires (and could in theory join the development team from time to time to write code) and also understands and has a passion for building, maintaining, and streamlining the continuous development and integration pipelines which support them.

You’ll be working with a mixture of technologies and software languages, based around a virtualised development environment and as such there is a wide range of skills that are applicable to this role. It is not expected that one person will hold all these skills, but it is expected that the DevOps team will have sufficient breadth and depth to cover all, and you will be key to achieving this.

Specific duties:

• Construction & Maintenance of the Software Development Environment
• Collaboration with colleagues across to ensure the system is always available
• Development and maintenance of the build and test pipelines across projects
• Providing support to the application developers as needed
• Accountable for cost and schedule of assigned work

Required Experience:

• Experience in C++ or Java Development
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle
• Experience developing build pipelines in Conan and or Gradle
• Experience of VMware ESXi would be an advantage
• Experience of Linux Red Hat application development and configuration desirable
• Experience with a variety of Software Configuration Tools including SVN and GIT desirable
• Degree in engineering, computer science or related subject

Personal Attributes:

• Eligible and willing to gain security clearance to SC level
• Self-motivated, adaptable to change, proactive, diligent and with good inter-personal skills.
• Ability to rapidly apply generic knowledge to new problems in new environments.

Travel:

• Hybrid working with travel to Weymouth as and when needed

Benefits:

• Flexible working week
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Medical and Dental Insurance
• Pension scheme
• Bonus scheme

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Software Engineer to join a brilliant DevOps team to help support the clients talented engineers.

Senior Software Engineer – £65,000 per year – Weymouth (Hybrid working)