Graduate Software Engineer - DevOps Remote
Job description
About us
Solirius Consulting delivers technical consultancy and application delivery to our clients in order to solve real world problems and allow our clients to respond to an ever-changing technical landscape. We partner closely with our clients, embedding our consultants into their businesses in order to provide a bespoke service, allowing us to truly understand our clients’ needs.
It is this close collaboration with our clients that has enabled us to grow rapidly in recent years and will drive our ambitious future growth plans. We currently have over 250 consultants working with a variety of key clients from both the public and private sectors such as the Ministry of Justice, Department for Education, FCDOS, UEFA, International Olympic Committee and Mercedes Benz; with plans to increase our client base further in the near future.
We operate as a flat organisation and believe in trusting and supporting our team to operate independently. We pride ourselves on being specialists at what we do, making the most of our consultants’ expertise in their fields in order to provide a best-in-class service to our clients. All our consultants have the opportunity to work on a range of different projects, providing a broad range of knowledge on which to develop their careers and progress in the direction they choose.
The role
You are:
You should have a genuine interest in technology. You will be critical thinking, enjoy tackling different problems in a structured way and are a highly motivated self-starter. You should have great interpersonal and communication skills and a strong desire to deliver the best possible solutions for our clients.
You will ideally share our values and be aligned with our ways of working. As your career progresses, you can expect to work across all areas of the development lifecycle, from strategy to development to implementation, and to take on assignments in different sectors. This will provide you with a broad base of experience from which to build an outstanding career. Candidates should be open to working in different locations for different clients. Although most of our work is in London, candidates should be happy to travel as client needs dictate.
Main duties:
After training, you’ll be working as a developer on one of our client projects, typically moving onto other client work after 6-12 months.
Responsible for developing features, fixing bugs, updating applications to comply with government standards.
Responsible for handling large amounts of sensitive data and creating, maintaining & scaling ETL pipelines to fuel web applications.
Responsible for developing and optimising reliable and resilient deployment pipelines alongside advocating DevOps principles, practices and philosophy.
Being part of a larger team - working with and learning from senior engineers within the team.
Helping with internal applications or other work when possible
Working closely with clients to understand their needs and working with the team too whilst on client site.
Helping us to grow our Software engineering Practice and DevOps capability
Typically, you will work on a particular project for 6-12 months before moving onto a new challenge. You will be part of a larger team, working with and learning from experienced consultants. As a consultant, you will work closely with our clients, helping to ensure that the project delivers great outcomes.
Specialist skills required:
Enthusiastic, motivated, committed and capable individuals with a scientific or technical degree, relevant professional qualification, or equivalent experience.
Problem solving and analytical skills.
Willingness to continually learn.
Some experience in software development, particularly in Python
Web technologies (front end particularly, a clear understanding of HTML, JavaScript, CSS, etc)
Understanding of common programming models (client/server, web based, integration)
Some understanding of DevOps technologies (Git, Docker, Jenkins, Travis or AWS)
Understanding of development methodologies - Agile and Waterfall
Some awareness of testing practices and CI/CD pipelines would be helpful
Experience of / familiarity with MySQL, PostgreSQL, Amazon RDS, Docker, or AWS/Azure DevOps would be helpful
Package and Benefits:
Competitive salary, dependent on experience
Flexible working / Work from home
Generous annual discretionary bonus
25 days annual leave + bank holidays
10 days allocated development training per year
Contributory pension
Gym membership
Annual away days and social events
Equality and diversity
Solirius Consulting is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that supports, celebrates, encourages and respects all individuals and in which all processes are based on merit, competence and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, gender, sexuality, age, disability, ethnicity, marital status or any other protected characteristics.
Should you require further assistance or require any reasonable adjustments be put in place to better support your application process, please do not hesitate to raise this with us.
