4 days ago
Farnborough, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, create, maintain, migrate, and optimize complex databases in client/server environments.
- Plan migrations of databases and associated data from physical or IaaS environments to virtual AWS instances.
- Configure database performance, resilience, replication, reporting, administration, backup, and archiving.
- Perform software requirements analysis, risk identification and mitigation, systems software development, and database programming.
- Implement automated build, test, and deployment processes and deploy build artifacts across different environments.
- Contribute to database runbooks, monitoring standards, file design, storage, systems integration, documentation, and delivery improvements.
- Collaborate across Agile teams, participate in daily scrums, and translate user stories into engineering deliverables.
Requirements
- Software engineering experience with considerable experience using AWS Services, Jira, Confluence, TestRail, SonarQube, Robot, Python, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Terraform, Ansible, Unix Bash scripting, and infrastructure as code.
- Considerable experience with automated build, test, and deployment, GitFlow-based delivery, database technologies, and systems software development.
- Considerable AWS experience and subject matter expertise in Wintel, Unix, virtualized networking, monitoring, and security.
- Experience translating user stories into engineering deliverables and associated documentation.
- Experience with SAFe and an appreciation of the software development life cycle.
- Must be a UK citizen and based in the UK for the duration of the role.
- Must have or be able to obtain UK SC clearance and be willing to undergo SC or DV clearance depending on role requirements.
- Strong collaboration, self-starting ability, delivery focus, and written and interpersonal English communication skills.
Benefits
- Contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance, 33 days of annual leave including public and privilege holidays, and flexible benefits such as life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy-and-sell holidays, and a cycle-to-work scheme.
- Flexible working scheme with opportunities to work from home, in the office, or on customer sites.
- Access to technical academies, career rotations, career development plans, and support for professional growth.
- Potential work locations include Bristol, Farnborough, and Whiteley in Hampshire; vacancies are expected throughout 2026.
About Leidos
Leidos builds and operates technology and engineering solutions for defense, intelligence, civil, and health agencies, including systems integration, cyber, enterprise IT, sensors, and healthcare IT. It primarily sells through government contracts and long-term programs, plus managed services and mission software. Founded in 1969 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos is a Fortune 500 public company on the NYSE; customers include U.S. defense and intelligence agencies and civil bodies such as the FAA.