Our client, a prominent entity in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a skilled Software Developer to join their team on a contract basis. This role is integral to enhancing and securing modern technology platforms, ensuring the protection of critical national infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver engineering platform capabilities that facilitate building, testing, securing, and deploying services in a highly automated, CI/CD-driven environment.
- Design, implement, and evolve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistent, reliable, and repeatable delivery processes across multiple teams and services.
- Embed Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices to drive standardisation and scalability.
- Integrate security controls into engineering workflows, ensuring services are secure by design.
- Support and enable engineering teams by providing guidance, tooling, and best practices.
- Continuously optimise automation, identifying opportunities to remove repetitive manual tasks and improve the developer experience.
- Collaborate across development, security, and operations to promote end-to-end ownership of services.
- Maintain and improve engineering tooling and platforms, including source-code control systems, build systems, artifact repositories, and deployment frameworks.
Job Requirements:
- Proficiency in software application development using languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, C++, or C#.
- Experience with database technologies (e.g., Elastic, MySQL, SQL*Server).
- Understanding of CI/CD platforms (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins) and source-code control (e.g., Git, GitOps).
- Knowledge of infrastructure management frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Chef).
- Familiarity with containerisation platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Helm).
- Experience with cloud-native platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP).
- Ability to integrate security controls into engineering workflows.
- Understanding of software and system validation, and test principles.
Benefits:
- Opportunity to work on significant and challenging projects within the Defence & Security sector.
- Access to cutting-edge tools and infrastructure in a technology-first environment.
- Professional development and training opportunities.
- A collaborative and mission-focused work atmosphere.
If you are an experienced Software Developer looking for an opportunity to contribute to national security and work with state-of-the-art technology, we encourage you to apply now. Join our client's dynamic team and make a meaningful impact in the Defence & Security sector.
