Senior Software Engineer

Company Description

Every minute of every day, Smiths Detection’s threat detection and security screening technology helps to protect people and infrastructure, making the world a safer place.

Smiths Detection is a global leader in the development, manufacture and management of security and detection solutions designed to make the world a safer place. Our technology provides threat detection and screening solutions for customers in our key markets: aviation, ports and borders, defence, and urban security.

Our expertise spans 21 global offices, seven manufacturing sites and five R&D centres, with a global network of 3,000 dedicated colleagues contributing towards over 40 years at the frontline of advances in safety and security.

This results in careers built on variety and the opportunity to work on a range of state-of-the-art solutions, where you can develop your knowledge and experience every day.

Job Description

Duties:

• Solve highly complex technical problems and deliver innovative, scalable, and maintainable solutions with minimal supervision.
• Implement architectural patterns and design standards, collaborating closely with key stakeholders to ensure adherence to defined architecture and best practices.
• Champion efficient and effective software development methodologies aligned with Agile and Lean principles, fostering continuous learning, collaboration, and iterative improvement.
• Contribute hands-on to development by packaging critical software components and services.
• Drive implementation of DevOps practices and toolchains with a strong emphasis on automation, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and proactive operational monitoring.
• Embed security, reliability, scalability, and performance considerations into development processes as non-negotiable quality attributes.
• Follow secure coding, packaging and release practices throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Implement scalable CI/CD platforms supporting multiple applications and teams.
• Serve as a technical bridge between engineering, operations, and other teams to enable seamless deliveries.
• Demonstrate deep expertise in modern platforms, frameworks, and tools, leveraging open-source technologies and open standards where appropriate to optimize cost and flexibility.

Qualifications

Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education requirements:

• Must possess at least a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, or Electrical/Electronics Engineering.
• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering and Linux system administration.

Knowledge:

• Expertise in distributed systems, microservices architecture, Kubernetes, cloud-native platform engineering, and air-gap bridge architecture.
• Hands on experience in Service Mesh (ISTIO) and Kubernetes Composable CNIs (Cilium).
• Should have sound hands on working expertise in Networking (BGP)
• Hands of exposure on advance Linux administration.
• Proven experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated build and release processes.
• Proficiency in containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Backend proficiency in one or more of Golang, Python, Java, gRPC/REST.
• Working knowledge of relational and non-relational databases.
• Proficiency in working on Linux environments, networking fundamentals, scripting, debugging, and performance troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of coding standards, version management (Git), build process, packaging (DevOps.)
• Good hands-on experience in writing helm charts, and deployment tools like ZARF
• Good hands-on experience with Argo CD and GitOps practices for automated application deployment and continuous delivery in Kubernetes environments.
• Proficiency in implementing secure coding standards, application security practices, and software quality assurance principles.
• Good hands-on experience with Software Defined Storage like Longhorn or S3.
• Good to have knowledge of Grafana, Loki, Tempo and Mimir database (LGTM stack) Full stack (Spring Boot & Angular) programming knowledge.

Skills and Experience:

• A self-starter with the ability to manage your time effectively, keen attention to detail and use your own initiative
• Excellent communication skills particularly in English (fluently spoken and written) in addition to any local language spoken at the place of work.
• The ability and motivation to persistently p…