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University of Warwick Hiring for Software Engineer Job at United Kingdom Full Time
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Full time, 36.5 hours per week, fixed term position for 2 years.
The University has recently transformed its Information Technology department into a newly formed Information and Digital Group (IDG). The group is making significant investment in support of the research community.
The Research IT team has a vacancy for a skilled and motivated Software Engineer. This is an opportunity to make an impact as part of a small and growing service team alongside technical professionals across the group as well as direct interaction with researchers particularly from arts and social sciences disciplines.
This role will suit you if in addition to strong technical ability you are adaptable, thorough and analytical and will be energised working with a variety of technologies and academics in tangibly contributing to Warwick’s research excellence.
The team works directly with academic colleagues to design, prototype, build and maintain applications for research activity. Objectives for this role will include: (i) Contributing high quality code to new and ongoing projects, (ii) the transition of existing projects into more resource efficient configurations for sustainability and future scalability (iii), expanding the service’s coverage within the Configuration and Management Database (CMDB) as well as to responding to emerging priorities set by the Group’s new Digital Strategy.
The research context of this role is an ideal pairing for a strong developer with an interest in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Interview Date: Week commencing 13 September 2021
Job Description
JOB DESCRIPTION
Responsible for the management and maintenance of live public systems (websites, databases, API endpoints, cloud services) and end-of-life processes as well as playing a key role in the design and implementation of robust, reusable, supported and sustainable technological solutions in new and ongoing projects.
This role requires utilisation of central and cloud infrastructure and coordination with Information and Digital Group teams. Candidates will have demonstrable skills in the management of production and test web application environments for multiple technology stacks used in research and the digital humanities. Examples could be open source applications written in Python, Node.js, Php, Java and XML/XSLT.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES
Software Development
1. Identify and implement feature improvements relevant to research through the customisation and extension of open-source applications within their respective frameworks (e.g. plugin development).
2. Deploy existing domain knowledge, or rapidly accumulate more to understand systems requirements, design and build solutions for research activities using standard IT technical and cloud services where appropriate.
Application and service management
3. Manage the service’s application instances of open-source software (Drupal, Omeka, WikiMedia, etc) that use associated third-party, bespoke commissioned and in-house developed plugins. Support them in line with IDG strategy and in resource efficient configurations.
- Update, patch and test applications including responses to cyber and information security threats. Identify causes and troubleshoot issues raised through monitoring to maintain Service Level Agreements.
- Coordinate and engineer the successful transition of applications and data for research projects through lifecycle stages with academic colleagues and other services: from prototype, through public production releases, to project archive and decommissioning. Ensure Configuration Management Database records are kept up-to-date and liaise with teams including Security, Linux Hosting Service, infrastructure teams and third parties as appropriate.
- Implement DevOps engineering and tools to improve automation and produce technical and documentation to aid the use, support, and maintenance of projects and tools for on premise and cloud infrastructure.
User engagement and support
- Provide advisory, coaching and customer service function in the use of systems built or supported by the service and produce end user documentation to aid their use.
- Provide a professional customer service function for users of the service
- Work on projects as directed by the Service Owner.
Undertake other duties commensurate with the level and scope of the role.