Your new company

Defence Organisation

Your new role

Application Support Engineer

What you'll need to succeed

• An Applications Operations Engineer will have significant and varied professional experience as a programmer or support engineer, typically gained over 2 years or more.

• Have excellent written and oral communication skills to produce reports and give presentations at an organisation-wide level to senior leadership and large groups.
• Be able to analyse complex business requirements, propose possible solutions and make recommendations.
• Experience of making decisions at the appropriate time, considering the needs of the situation, priorities, constraints, and the availability of necessary information.
• Experience of checking progress against targets, reporting as necessary and taking action to solve exceptions

• Practitioners using agreed standards to design, create, test and document new or amended software using the organisation's standard languages (e.g. C#. Net) and Cloud components.
• An understanding of front-end web development (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) to be able to make improvements to the user experience.
• Has a practitioner knowledge of a core language and routinely uses automated testing tools and techniques.
• Extensive experience of building pipelines and tools
• Extensive experience with practices such as test-driven development (focusing on automation), continuous integration and continuous delivery.

• Working skills in systems design.
• Experience of working with web APIs
• Design solutions are characterised by medium levels of risk, impact and business or technical complexity.
• Selects appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensures they are applied effectively, including using cloud solutions where appropriate.
• Review the system designs of others to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Experience working with Cloud technologies, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud.
• Ability to deliver software that utilises the features of cloud platforms
• Experience of building scalable web applications (preferably cloud hosted)

What you need to do now

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