Senior Software Engineer (DevOps)

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Westbury
Salary
Competitive
Posted
28 May 2021
Closes
24 Jun 2021
Sectors
Engineering
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
DevOps Technical Lead

An exciting opportunity for a Lead DevOps Engineer to be based at Westbury (Wiltshire) although there is an opportunity to conduct much of the work remotely.

The successful candidate will be responsible for performing a range of software and systems engineering duties and system administration tasks.

Typical duties may include:
* Leading and mentoring the software team responsible for implementation of the CI/CD strategy
* Designing, implementing and monitoring the software build and deployment pipeline
* Driving the development and testing of new features
* Managing software releases and ensuring that application issues are resolved in a timely manner
* Implementing and leading an Agile-based development cycle, including daily team meetings and retrospectives, task estimation and prioritisation, planning, demonstration and reporting activities
* Communicating on a daily basis with key internal and external stakeholders
* Assisting the team with troubleshooting, database administration, and development of code and scripts

Required skills:
* Proven experience in leading software teams in an Agile environment
* Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle
* Practical knowledge of Jira
* Web application development using Java (including JSP), JavaScript, HTML and CSS
* Experience in using and administrating relational databases
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to create presentation material
* Excellent customer service skills

Desired skills:
* Agile certification (e.g. Scrum Master)
* Requirements analysis and management (e.g. DOORS)
* System and software design (e.g. UML, SysML)
* Practical experience in using scripts to automate processes (e.g. Powershell)
* Web Server administration and configuration (e.g. Apache Tomcat, WildFly)
* JavaScript development using jQuery, and Angular and/or DHTMLX frameworks
* Practical experience in using the Hibernate framework
* Experience with Oracle SQL
* Regular use of message-based middleware and protocols, e.g. (ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, REST, SOAP)
* Experience of fault finding web-based, database technologies and complimentary operating systems
* Experience with Hyper-V and/or VMware
* Experience with Oracle SQL
* Practical knowledge of Windows and Windows Server administration.

The DevOps Technical Lead role will involve working on UK classified programmes the candidate must therefore be willing and able to obtain a security clearance

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