ADDITIONAL / BONUS SKILLS

• Interaction with REST APIs from the client-side
• Python, SQL, XML JSON

WHAT WE DO FOR YOU:

At Leidos we are PASSIONATE about customer success, UNITED as a team and INSPIRED to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance.

We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains only the best in talent. Our reward scheme includes:

• Contributory Pension Scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
• Access to Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
• Dynamic Working

Commitment to Diversity:
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are:
Leidos UK & EUROPE – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.
Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different:
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world. You can inspire change.
Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team. We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years. Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.
People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

The successful individual will be expected to:

• Provide DevOps skills engaging in a scrum team being an active part of its delivery and continuous improvement
• Develop, test, document and deploy elements of the solution and ensure KT is appropriate for the movement into service
• Work with delivery teams to design and implement and integrate modern, scalable products using a range of existing, new and emerging technologies
• Collaborate with the wider teams seeking to learn and improve with every sprint
• Communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context of the deliver

We are looking for someone with excellent organisation, communication and development skills who ideally has experience of, or can demonstrate a willingness to learn:

• Agile software development methodologies, working in a scrum team, estimation, ticket creation and management, engagement in demos, retrospectives and continuous process improvement
• Understanding and experience of the importance of secure by design and delivering within a secure environment
• Demonstratable experience of development in, and software engineering best practices of front-end web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, React, Node.js, Bootstrap)
• Good general knowledge of Microsoft Stack technologies such as MS SQL Server, MS System Centre, M365, MS Exchange & CLI tooling such as PowerShell
• Familiarity of cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
• It would be beneficial, but not essential, if you also have an understanding of technologie

As a result of some exciting programme wins, we currently have a permanent vacancy for a Software Engineer to support the development and transition into live of a new IT application and infrastructure solution providing support to a critical operational end user.
The Software Engineer will provide input and expertise to maintain alignments with best practices and recommending system/code/process improvements. They will also support the development of junior Software engineers in the program/team.
This individual is expected to create an environment for innovation and technical mentoring. You will be self-motivated and be able to work autonomously to achieve day to day objectives with significant results on project or operational deliverables, whilst also owning a variety of activities ensuring compliance with project milestones and customer KPIs and SLAs. You must be an effective communicator, comfortable directly engaging with customers and colleagues. You must also demonstrate an analytical and systematic approach to technical challenges.

The successful individual will be expected to:

• Provide DevOps skills engaging in a scrum team being an active part of its delivery and continuous improvement
• Develop, test, document and deploy elements of the solution and ensure KT is appropriate for the movement into service
• Work with delivery teams to design and implement and integrate modern, scalable products using a range of existing, new and emerging technologies
• Collaborate with the wider teams seeking to learn and improve with every sprint
• Communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context of the delivery

We are looking for someone with excellent organisation, communication and development skills who ideally has experience of, or can demonstrate a willingness to learn:

• Agile software development methodologies, working in a scrum team, estimation, ticket creation and management, engagement in demos, retrospectives and continuous process improvement
• Understanding and experience of the importance of secure by design and delivering within a secure environment
• Demonstratable experience of development in, and software engineering best practices of front-end web technologies (e.g. HTML, CSS, React, Node.js, Bootstrap)
• Good general knowledge of Microsoft Stack technologies such as MS SQL Server, MS System Centre, M365, MS Exchange & CLI tooling such as PowerShell
• Familiarity of cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure or GCP
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills
• It would be beneficial, but not essential, if you also have an understanding of technologies