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Description: CONTRACTORS MUST BE ELIGIBLE FOR SC OR HOLD CURRENT SC CLEARANCE AND MUST NOT BE DUAL NATIONAL
Role Title: Software systems engineers (DEV OPS)
Location: Hybrid/Frimley 2/3 days onsite per week
Duration: 6 months rolling contract
Rate: up to £590.00 dependent on experience
MUST BE PAYE THROUGH UMBRELLA
Role Description:
As a Software Systems Engineer (DevOps), you will be working with dedicated engineering teams to configure and deploy the next generation systems. You will be working closely with multiple project stakeholders to define, detail, design and develop appropriate infrastructure service solutions to meet our customer's needs. This role will be feeding into the development of the Core Infrastructure, providing a diverse set of software solutions needed to support the operational requirements of the system applications. The Core Infrastructure product will be delivered and maintained using agile and lean practices with a 'continuous integration, continuous delivery' development approach.
Your main responsibilities as a Software Systems Engineer (DevOps) will involve:
Playing a key role in systems engineering activity for the development and deployment of new products
Understanding our customers' challenging needs, developing, validating and managing requirements
Developing and documenting complex system architectures and sub-systems, providing evidence of fitness for purpose and customer value
Integrating systems containing electronic, mechanical and software sub-systems, understanding the potential impact across the entire system as well as interfacing platforms and equipment
Taking accountability for technical work packages and verifying that customer needs are satisfied through qualification and test activities
Working within a diverse group of engineers, providing guidance and coaching to others
Steering new systems development through implementation of best practice systems life cycle processes
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Capabilities:
Infrastructure as Code solutions, eg Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Powershell DSC
Virtualisation and Container Ecosystems, eg VMware vSphere, Kubernetes, Docker, including knowledge of API interaction and automation solutions
Operating Systems management with Linux, Windows & Windows Server
Configuration and automation of enterprise network infrastructure, eg Routing, Switching, VLANs, Firewalls and Load Balancers/Reverse Proxies
Relational databases (MySQL) on Windows/Linux platforms
Atlassian Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket and GIT
Desirable Skills, Knowledge and Capabilities:
Knowledge and experience of multiple software life cycle phases (Requirements, Design, Implementation, Integration and Test, Support).
Experience of overseeing production of software releases including responsibility for release authorisation.
Programming and Scripting Experience:- C#, Go, Python, Bash, PowerShell
Modern API and Microservice principles, eg REST APIs, OpenAPI RESTful Design, and gRPC