Senior Software Engineer [DevOps]

Our world-leading Time & Frequency department is seeking an experienced and practicing Senior Software Engineer with proven expertise in DevOps automation and container orchestration .

You will be joining our team at an exciting time – we maintain the UK’s National Time Scale, UTC (NPL), and are currently developing a new resilient Time Scale facility that will underpin our Critical National Infrastructure. This will address the risks associated with our dependency on global navigation satellite systems (such as GPS) that are vulnerable to both natural and intentional interference.

You’ll work closely with the Product Manager(s) and Delivery Manager(s) to align product and business requirements, develop proposals, and balance technical debt to deliver product functionality.

Key responsibilities:

1. Oversee software release management – automated deployment to multiple on-prem and cloud environments
2. Develop scripts to automate DevOps functions
3. Manage all content going live

Reporting to a Programme Manager, you\’ll play a pivotal role in the design of critical UK infrastructure that pushes the boundaries of measurement accuracy for the UK\’s new resilient Time Scale. To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills, experience, and qualifications:

• Proven and recent experience in the delivery of DevOps solutions
• Team leadership
• Risk assessment and management
• Security mindset
• Clear communication skills

Essential technical skills:

• Automation – Packer, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD practices, developing pipelines
• Unix system administration
• Cloud platform administration
• Docker, container orchestration
• Python and shell scripting
• Professional software development experience

It is also desirable if you have interest in Physics, measurements, and communications, for example:

• Time and frequency measurement and time scale steering
• Real-time monitoring and control of electronic hardware
• Satellite communication, optical fibre, and GNSS-based systems

Please note: Applications will be reviewed, and interviews conducted throughout the duration of this advert; therefore, we may at any time bring the closing date forward. We encourage all interested applicants to apply as soon as practical.

We actively recruit citizens of all backgrounds, but the nature of our work in specific departments means that nationality, residency, and security requirements can be more tightly defined than others. You will be asked about this throughout the recruitment process. To work at NPL, you will need to obtain BPSS security clearance.

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