We are looking to expand our development teams in central London, which build and maintain a number of operational systems for a key client within our Defence and Intelligence portfolio. The role offers fantastic opportunities to gain experience and technical expertise across a wide range of leading edge and bespoke technologies within an interesting and rewarding environment.  Team members must be creative, pro-active and willing to develop their skills in-line with emerging technologies.  We have roles for Junior and Senior Developers and offer the opportunity to develop skills through both formal and informal training and offer excellent career progression opportunities.

Mandatory requirements:

• Good development skills using Java or C++ with code written to a common standard including well documented code and design documents.

• Knowledge of System Testing and experience of automated testing – e.g. unit tests, integration tests, mocking/stubbing.

• Linux experience as a deployment platform and day-to-day development environment – e.g. can describe package management, networking configuration, log files, environment variables.

• Demonstrated experience in at least one of: RHEL, CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu.

• Experience of a version control system: e.g. Git (preferred), SVN, Mercurial.

• Experience of continuous integration & analysis systems: e.g. Jenkins, SonarQube, FindBugs.

• Ability to use a wide variety of open source technologies – e.g. Apache Tomcat, Log4J, Maven, Spring, RabbitMQ.

• Strong familiarity with the Linux command line.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of working in an Agile project delivery environment.

• Experience of automation/configuration management (i.e. Ansible).

DevOps Experience.

• Experience of using Cloudera Distribution including Apache Hadoop (CDH) or other Big Data technologies.

• Deep Linux experience – e.g., can describe SELinux, chroot, ssh tunnelling, differences between Linux distributions.

• Networking familiarity – e.g., can describe HTTP protocol, TCP/IP, UDP, serial ports/communications, use of Wireshark/tshark.

• Experience of certificate based authentication, including: generating, providing and verifying certificates.