Cyber Software Developer - Gloucestershire, United Kingdom - Sanderson

Sanderson

Verified Company

Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Cyber Software Developer

Location:
Gloucester or London

Salary:
Competitive, based on skillset and experience.

Must be eligible for a government DV security clearance.

This client has the capacity to make a number of hires at varying levels of seniority, into their operational cyber division.

What you'll be doing

Understand various development methodologies, and how they fit in with different delivery approaches.
Factor operational security requirements into system design, development, and testing.
Conduct, support and encourage constructive code reviews for peers.
Adopt a pragmatic approach to changing customer requirements and priorities, reporting on the impact and suggesting appropriate aspects to descope.
Embrace emerging technology and language trends, evaluating beneficial emerging tools and championing their adoption and rollout.
Conduct software development in line with the business and industry best practices.
Identify risks associated with software development tasks and mitigate and/or escalate as necessary.
Plan appropriate testing approaches (e.g., physical/virtual/realworld) and justify them according to the different risk profiles.
Model and perform analysis on problems and solutions
Design, code, and document software from a logical design.
Overcome development obstacles to deliver quality code within time and budget constraints.
Collaborate with team members to integrate developed code seamlessly into the solution.
Implement continuous integration where appropriate.
Define and write test scripts and unit, integration, and system tests for developed software.

Essential:

Knowledge:

Familiarity with of variety of development tools (IDEs, debuggers, source control).
Principles of highassurance development.
Development techniques such as unit testing, mocking, continuous integration, and testdriven development.
Understanding of how the specific customer domain affects the software under development.
Awareness of IT security as a major issue for companies and governments.

Skills:

Intermediate/advanced understanding of how computers work (e.g., stack/heap distinction, compiled/interpreted languages).
Proficient with at least 1 "solution" language (e.g., C++, Java, C#).
Proficient with at least 1 "utility" language (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Perl, Powershell)
Able to use and configure more than one major operating system (e.g., Windows, OSX, Linux, FreeBSD)
Able to pick up new languages easily.

If you're interested and would like to discuss in more detail, don't hesitate to get in touch for an informal conversation.