Senior Software Engineer London, England
Job description
Primary role purpose:
You will work in a global cross functional development team, and interact directly with your peers within CTO Platform Engineering to create the best possible service in a collaborative environment. The successful candidate is required to work on key Inmarsat Edge and shore-side solutions whilst also having a good understanding of the end to end networking and ideally software defined networking. The role demands a cross-functional engineer who is comfortable with being able to develop software but also integrate with existing systems. The position will require development of data centre based application both on-premises and in AWS Cloud as well as developing Docker container based applications which will be deployed to and edge device over a satellite link.
You will be responsible for leading epics, driving low level design and delivering user stories to a high quality deployable solution which meets the project’s definition of done. You will have the ability to prove concepts and take them to production level solution. You will be required to work in both an agile scrum team environment delivering software as part of our CI/CD pipeline whilst also helping to extend our CI/CD pipeline capabilities.
The successful candidate will understand, interpret and adopt new technical information rapidly. They must have a demonstrable interest in new technologies and product innovation, and a practical understanding of the technology development lifecycle and be able to participate at the appropriate point in a matrix development process. A background in IT, Internet or telecoms is desirable.
Qualifications
Key Responsibilities:
- Working as a key member of a growing development team with a mandate to develop new and innovative products into the satellite communications industry.
- Proving concepts using time-boxed technical spikes
- Solving complex problems using cutting edge technologies.
- Ability to diagnose critical cross platform defects
- Identify opportunities for solution reuse
- Design and development of services running both at the edge and in the cloud.
- Taking ownership of end to end deliverables across the full software development life-cycle.
- Development of automated tests and tools for CI/CD.
- Ensuring tests are passing on slow and fast track dashboards
Essential Knowledge and Skills:
- Extensive programming experience in an OO language (i.e. python or C++)
- Excellent understanding of the Linux operating system
- Comfortable working in an agile development environment
- Experience designing and developing REST API's
- Exposure to distributed systems, container technologies, high availability and cloud environments (particularly AWS)
- Hands on experience building automated tests
- Good understanding of networking and SDN
- SD-WAN knowledge desirable
- Strong problem solver with ability to communicate ideas clearly
Additional Information
You must be eligible to work in this location advertised.
Inmarsat Values:
Our values define Inmarsat’s culture and represent what we believe in. Inmarsat employees aspire to certain behaviours which support our corporate values, they create a stronger working environment and lie at the heart of our continued success as an organisation.
- Customer – Providing a unique value to our customers
- Accountability – taking ownership, getting results and keeping our promises
- Respect – collaborating, embracing diversity and valuing differences
- Excellence – creating bold solutions for our customers and putting quality at the heart of everything we do
