Software Engineer jobs in United Kingdom

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Operations and Maintenance team in Harrogate, reporting to the Head of System Operations. You’ll be part of a highly skilled team responsible for ensuring the performance, reliability, and readiness of critical systems.

Our division delivers innovative, reliable, and secure solutions to national and international customers across defence, civil, and commercial sectors. If you’re driven by challenges, thrive in complex environments, and want to make a tangible impact, this is the role for you.

• Monitor system and subsystem performance, preparing regular status reports


• Investigate and respond to anomalous system behaviour


• Implement performance improvements via scripting and procedure updates


• Assist in developing standard operating procedures and redundancy management documentation


• Support system reconfiguration and non-routine operations


• Monitor equipment health to maintain the highest level of mission readiness


• Undertake core skills training and follow-on advanced development


• Work a non-traditional schedule, including occasional 12-hour shifts and weekend

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with relevant experience or Master’s in STEM with relevant experience


• Ability to thrive as both a leader and a technical contributor


• Experience leading briefs and providing solutions to decision-makers


• Proven project or team leadership experience in complex, high-pressure environments

• Operations or systems/software engineering experience


• Linux OS and scripting skills (Python, Perl)


• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira)


• Experience in geographically distributed teams


• Knowledge of Flask Web Framework or Jupyter Notebooks