DevOps Platform Engineer

• NEC Software Solutions is headquartered in the UK and operates around the world.
• We employ more than 3,000 people in six countries, building software and services to get our customers better outcomes.
• We traded as Northgate Public Services until 1 July 2021 when we rebranded to align with our owners, NEC. Most of our subsidiary companies did too (APD Communications, i2N, EMIS Care and Charter Systems) but our service design agency still trades as Snook.
• We’ve been part of global tech company NEC Corporation since January 2018.

Find out more about our business on the Corporate Responsibility and Performance pages.

This role is situated within the NEC Justice team, who are responsible for producing products and services for the probation, prison and policing sectors. We are currently undertaking a number of new developments to support the ever-changing justice landscape - this includes the creation of exciting new products for these markets and the migration of our existing products onto our new development platform.

We have invested heavily in our infrastructure and technology capability, enabling us to
deliver innovative solutions and faster times to market. We harness
the latest tools and technology, allowing our business to work faster and more intelligently whilst we move from private cloud to being fully hosted in AWS. 

We have a varied technology stack including Angular, Java, Spring Boot, Typescript and
Python and we use Docker containers and ECS technologies for all our new applications. Our test automation environment is Java-based and we use an exclusively Agile (Scrum) approach for planning and delivery.

We aim to hire talented, creative and versatile people that help us grow and continuously improve.  We promote a unified language and framework approach and are committed to best practices in architecture and design.  The successful candidate will be joining an organisation with an established DevOps culture and a strong focus on agile methods and collaboration.

General Responsibilities

As a DevOps Platform Engineer, you will help to deliver value to the business in the fastest possible way while ensuring we meet the quality, security & reliability requirements of all of our systems.

General Requirements:

• Computer Science degree or equivalent
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience working with Agile Methodologies
• AWS Solutions Architect certification, or ability to demonstrate this level of knowledge
• Solid experience supporting software delivery processes
• Proven ability to select the relevant tools for building a CI/CD pipeline
• Proven ability to understand and problem solving complex environment
• Solid experience with IaC (e.g. Docker and CloudFormation)
• Experience working with Java based technologies and applications
• Can drawn on past examples when you have demonstrated an attitude of collaboration and shared ownership of responsibilities with Software Engineers

Employees of NEC are entitled to the following Company funded benefits:

• Single Private Medical Cover (with the option to select family cover at an additional cost)
• 25 days paid holiday (includes 3 company nominated days) with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days
• 4 x basic salary life assurance cover
• A Group Pension Plan with fantastic employer contributions
• A selection of tax efficient flexible benefits to suit your individual needs
• The role offers a competitive salary.

OTHER INFORMATION

Candidates must be able to demonstrate a pre-existing right to work in the UK. Documentary evidence will be required.

All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting and reference checks to include a SC and NPPV check as standard.

NEC is an equal opportunities employer, welcoming applications from all communities.