Senior Software Engineer

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Cheltenham
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
SALARY
£76,100 / year
CATEGORY
Software Engineering
This role is not offered with visa sponsorship, though the employer is a licensed UK sponsor

SKILLS

AWS CI/CD Jenkins Docker Kubernetes Python Linux Ansible

FULL DESCRIPTION

Company: [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]

Job Title: Senior Software Engineer

Location: Cheltenham, UK (Hybrid)

Salary: £50,700 - £76,100 per annum

Job ID: R10215057

Your Opportunity to Define Possible

Collaborating with Architects, Software Developers and Testers, we align complex systems to exacting standards and deliver mission value that transforms client systems, whilst delivering improvement in reliability, cost and organisational agility.

Your Responsibilities

  • Work as a part of a team to design, build and maintain mission critical systems
  • Automating system deployment, operation and maintenance using Infrastructure as Code and Configuration Management tooling
  • Support the Leads to drive decisions to implement best fit tools to solve complex project problems effectively.
  • Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines to ensure stability and quality at all stages of the SDLC
  • Migration activities with a focus on positioning projects to become cloud ready and implement micro services architecture.
  • Continuously expand your own skills, maintaining and enhancing relevant certifications

Your Experience

  • Bachelor’s Degree in a Computer Science based subject, equivalent qualification or equivalent relevant experience;
  • Amazon Web Services Certified to Practitioner or Associate level with experience of designing, deploying and administering cloud based solutions;
  • Experience of creating/maintaining DevOps CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Concourse, Maven, Bamboo
  • Experience of automating tasks using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Puppet or Python;
  • Experience of administering Virtualised or Containerised systems in VMWare or Docker/Kubernetes/Openshift;
  • Strong collaboration and excellent communication skills verbal and written using collaborating tooling e.g. Atlassian Suite (Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket)
  • Strong agile background, keen to learn and succeed across multiple teams and adapt where required.
  • Cloud experience and awareness in AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud
  • Platforms Experience of designing, deploying and administering Linux or Unix based solutions would be advantageous e.g. using virtualisation, containerisation, Infrastructure as Code
  • Experience with performance monitoring tools e.g. Elastic Stack, Grafana, CheckMK.

Your Benefits

  • Flexible working schedules – we offer flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
  • Flexible Benefits Package – choose which NGUKL benefits you want. Core Benefits: Healthcare, Dental, Life Assurance and Pension. Flexible options: Critical Illness Cover, Health Cash Plan, Health Assessments.
  • Employee Incentive Programme – exceptional performance recognised through annual incentive programme.
  • Career Development – ongoing professional development and career growth opportunities.

Your Future Team

Joining the Infrastructure Discipline at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] gives a great variety of opportunity, working with the latest Infrastructure as Code and DevSecOps toolsets to deliver innovative solutions to extremely complex problems.

About Our Responsibilities

Our customers operate in unique environments which offer new and exciting challenges every day. We promote collaboration and value what you say and do.

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce, and encourages individuals from all backgrounds and all abilities to apply.

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