About the job

Job summary

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Would you like to build and run the platforms that underpin public services in Scotland? In the cloud and platform services division, our mission is to design, build, and operate a Scottish Government platform for Public Sector bodies across Scotland, providing: Cloud Computing, Digital Payments, and Digital Identity. By establishing common platforms, we support organisational transformation, allowing bodies to deliver their services more efficiently, more quickly, and at scale.

As a Software Engineer, you will: develop software to meet user needs, writing clean, efficient, secure, documented and well tested code; operate the services you build and identify issues in production: observe best practises and contribute to their improvement; mentor colleagues; and have awareness of common security vulnerabilities and how to mitigate them.

Job description

Your responsibilities will include:

A developer delivers software components that form part of a product. At this role level, you will:-

• Develop software to meet user needs; writing clean, secure and well tested code
• Operate the services you build and identify issues in production
• Follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines
• Coach and mentor more junior colleagues

Additional Duties

• Participate in planning and prioritizing software delivery
• Write software, across the entire software development life cycle, using a variety of software design patterns.
• Design, implement, deploy and operate small services or components
• Develop applications using a mixture of code and low-code approaches
• Write and test software and infrastructure that will run in a cloud environment
• Develop software securely, using best practices and implementing specific guidance
• Help with the identification and resolution of issues on production systems
• Apply agile or lean practices to your daily work
• Work as part of the team to continuously improve development processes

Person specification

No formal qualifications are required for this role. We would love you to apply if you meet the following essential criteria. 

• You know how to design, implement and manage service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets including security, resilience and scalability
• Familiarity with the principles of continuous delivery. Experience with continuous integration tools (e.g. Gitlab), version control (e.g.Git)
• Experience in developing modern web applications (with one or more of C#, Java, Python, typescript or JavaScript) and deploying these using infrastructure as code in a cloud environment (e.g. Azure)
• Experience applying agile software development practices. In particular you must be proficient in iterative software development

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £43,725, Scottish Government contributes £11,805 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

Sift and Interview dates TBC

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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.