software developer London, England
Job description
Python Developer (Inside IR35)
Contract Term: 12 months
Contracting Authority: Cabinet Office – UK Security Vetting
Location: Hybrid – 2 days per week in office - Glasgow, York, Bristol, Manchester, London
The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas. More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office
We are currently looking for Back End Developers, eligible for SC Clearance, on a 12 month contract with the Cabinet Office.
As a Python Developer, your main responsibilities would be:
· Designs, runs and improves software that meets user needs.
· Responsible for writing clean, secure code following a test-driven approach; create code that is open by default and easy for others to reuse.
· Lead development on one or a small number of related project teams.
· Be proficient in a wide range of technical systems; be involved in identifying appropriate technology and approaches, deciding when software should be written; contribute to the developer community; provide technical leadership; promote knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice
You’ll have relevant experience in:
· An active SC Clearance is highly desirable
· Strong experience working with:
o AWS Native technologies and services
o Python
o DynamoDB, PostgreSQL
o Ability to work in an agile environment
o CI/CD, DevOps and Deployment pipeline Identifying efficiencies around the buy vs build
o Terraform
· Manage the service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
· Identify process optimisation opportunities. Designing solutions and services with security controls embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats.
· Demonstrate strong understanding and application of the most appropriate modern standards. Advise on the right way to apply standards and methods, ensuring compliance.
· Maintain technical responsibility for all the stages and iterations of a software development project. Know a variety of methods of prototyping and can choose the most appropriate ones.
· Review the systems designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology.
· Coordinate build activities across systems and understand how to undertake and support integration-testing activities.
· Know how to prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.
Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.
If you consider yourself to have a disability or if you are a veteran, and you meet the essential criteria for the role, PSR provides a ‘Guaranteed Interview’ scheme whereby you will have the opportunity to discuss this role and your suitability with a member of our PSR Sourcing team.
If you qualify, please notify us.
In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.
Job Type: Full-time
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London, SW1A 2HQ
