Software Engineer

• This is an opportunity for a driven Software Engineer to join our Mobile Environments teams and take on an exciting new career challenge
• You’ll have the opportunity to build a wide network of stakeholders of varying levels of seniority
• It’s a chance to hone your existing technical skills and advance your career

What you'll do

In your new role, you’ll engineer and maintain innovative, customer centric, high performance, secure and robust solutions. You’ll be working within a feature team and using extensive experience to engineer software, scripts and tools that are often complex, as well as liaising with other engineers, architects and business analysts across the platform.

We'll look to you to manage continuous code deployments into AWS, DataPower and mainframe environments used for mobile testing, as well as fulfilling environment and data requirements to deliver projects based on the mobile release plan roadmap.

You’ll also be:

• Producing complex and critical software rapidly and of high quality which adds value to the business
• Working in permanent teams who are responsible for the full life cycle, from initial development, through enhancement and maintenance to replacement or decommissioning
• Collaborating to optimise our software engineering capability
• Designing, producing, testing and implementing our working code
• Working across the life cycle, from requirements analysis and design, through coding to testing, deployment and operations
• Debugging and fixing issues with test data and environment to maintain the integrity and enable continuous deployment or testing against the mobile roadmap

The skills you'll need

You'll need previous development experience on the IBM Mainframe, COBOL, DB2, CICS, zOS connect, with hands on knowledge of configuration and maintenance of IBM Mainframe CICS Regions and knowledge of DB2 Admin activities. Along with this you'll have experience of DevOps and Agile methodology and associated toolsets and methodologies along with a background in solving highly complex, analytical and numerical problems.

You’ll also need:

• Experience of implementing programming best practice, especially around scalability, automation, virtualisation, optimisation, availability and performance
• Knowledge of Jenkins, Gitlab and UCD along with experience of monitoring and debugging issues in Datapower functional and non-functional environments
• Ability to analyse issues using AWS CloudWatch and API logs from the mobile client app
• Working knowledge including management of virtual mainframe environments like zVM
• Programming knowledge in Python in automating tasks