Lead Cloud Developer

UK CITIZENSHIP REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION: Yes

RELOCATION ASSISTANCE: No relocation assistance available

CLEARANCE TYPE: UK-Security Check (SC)

TRAVEL: Yes, 10% of the Time

Your Opportunity to Define Possible. Our Opportunity to Deliver the Nation's Security. Together

Role clearance type: UK-Security Check (SC)

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Salary: £ 65,000 - £95,000

About Your Opportunity:

Define Possible at Northrop Grumman UK

At Northrop Grumman UK, our mission is to solve the most complex challenges by shaping the technology and solutions of tomorrow. We call it Defining Possible.

This mind-set goes beyond our customer solutions; it's the foundation for your career development and the impact we have within the community. So, what's your possible?

About Your Opportunity:

As a critical part of the Secure Cloud Solutions team you are expected to take a lead role in all aspects of software development within cloud centric solutions, being able to develop backend or full stack solutions. You will work within cross discipline cloud teams to create, deploy and maintain software capabilities and cloud infrastructure.

You will be the lead cloud developer within a team with accountability for the quality of delivery and additional responsibilities for solution design, work planning and customer liaison. You will have a broad skill set but may have developed a specialism, such as Cloud Security or DevOps.

Responsibilities

• May be the lead engineer within a team, with accountability for the quality of delivery, owning of the team deliverables, working with the project teams to define a path forward that meets the customer's requirements.
• Liaison with Product Owner and Project Stakeholders during design work, guiding more junior engineers through the process to document, estimate and prioritise customer requirement sets.
• Responsible for the design of parts of or the overall solution, and able to articulate the design to stakeholders.
• Get involved in the entire development lifecycle from requirements gathering to design, implementation, test and deployment.
• Work may include technical writing in designing of operational systems producing System Design Documents, such as both High- and Low-Level Designs and Operational Concept Descriptions or contributing to business development and contributing to bid writing.
• Responsible for the development of clean, well-constructed, unit-tested code
• Leads the quality of the team's output by contributing in code reviews, and the creation and maintenance of automated tests and testing and deployment tooling.
• Undertake documentation reviews of other engineers' work, ensuring documentation is of good quality and aligns to the standards set by the project
• Leads the team's continuous improvement and work planning.
• Leads the creation and maintenance of the team's CI/CD tool chain.
• Supports the Project Manager in predicting resourcing needs for the team.
• Mentor to less experienced software engineers and may have some line management duties.
• Takes initiative to keep skills up to date.
• Contribute to all aspects of cloud solutions, from dedicated software stacks, cloud native solutions, serverless functions and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Your Experience:

• Proven experience working within IT Systems Design, Deployment and Administration, with recent roles in Technical or Team Leadership positions.
• Excellent communication, collaboration & problem-solving skills, ideally with some experience in agile ways of working.
• Hands on experience of full stack development
• Experience of using: Python, Backend development in Java and it's ecosystem (Spring Boot, Maven), Frontend Development and it's ecosystem (React, npm).
• Experience of developing cloud-based solutions across either Amazon Web Service or Microsoft Azure.
• Certification to Associate level in either AWS or Azure is desirable whether as an Architect/Engineer or Developer.
• Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, Puppet, Python, CDK or Terraform
• Use of DevOps Automated Deployment tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab, Docker, OpenShift or Kubernetes
• General knowledge of other related disciplines, such as test, infrastructure, systems engineering.
• Experience of DevSecOps. Able to contribute to the development and maintenance of the project's CI/CD chain toolset.

Your Future Team:

"Life in the Secure Cloud Solutions team is an exceptionally rewarding role where no two days are truly the same. You can be troubleshooting some Python code in a Lambda function, designing complex solutions, presenting to the customer and building that same solution using Infrastructure as Code and DevOps tooling.

This variety helps the role feel 'fresh' and I always finish each day feeling like I've learnt something new!"

Kris, Lead Cloud Solutions Engineer, National Security Solutions @ Northrop Grumman UK

Our focused and flexible Infrastructure Team consists of industry leading practitioners in engineering and systems administration across all specialisms and experience, working with multiple customer sets and system classifications, on both public cloud and on premise.

We work collaboratively to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems, providing our team a broad range of experiences from which to develop new skills and learning across the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets.

Diversity is at the heart of our success. Our team share experience, knowledge and new thinking gained from a wide range of backgrounds perspective, culture, gender, race, age and many other elements across several industries. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from communities currently under-represented within our industry. We treat everyone with respect and foster safe and inclusive environments.

About Our Responsibilities:

Our customers operate in unique environments which offer new and exciting challenges every day, cultivating a place where you can learn and thrive, working alongside the best minds in industry. We'll give you space to develop your career, where your ideas can shape the future of our dynamic business.

We promote collaboration to achieve more than we could imagine, together. And within a respectful and inspirational environment, we value what you say and do.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply and consider becoming a part of our diverse and inclusive workforce.