Research Software Engineer

Salary: B and E £39,748 per annum, pro-rata for part time. A Specialist Allowance of up to £4,000 per annum is also available.
Benefits: 30 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + 2.5 privilege days + exceptional defined average salary pension + excellent work life balance
Location: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire. OR Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington
Contract Type: Open Ended
Closing Date for applications: Friday 2nd December 2022

We are seeking a Software Engineer to work at the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC) Oxford campus within our Scientific Computing Department (SCD). Become part of a team within SCD's Distributed Computing Infrastructure Group developing and delivering a growing portfolio of services that underpin national and international distributed computing infrastructures such as the world's largest scientific digital research infrastructures! These infrastructures include the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid (WLCG), the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) the EGI Federation and the IRIS community.

Examples of these services are:

• An accounting system (APEL) that allows the daily resource usage of 1.8 million compute jobs daily across 825 sites to be accounted for and aggregated. A topology and resource information database (GOCDB) that provides an up-to-date and centralised view of infrastructures allowing 700 sites across 70 countries to handle their own infrastructure data at any time. An identity proxy service (IRIS IAM) which enables users to access an infrastructure sing multiple different credentials and provides partners with a centralised authorisation platform.

Your duties will include:

• Ownership and delivery of large-scale software and infrastructure-as-code features, as well as extending and maintaining features, across the entire Software Development Process
• Working with team members to provide 2nd level technical support to investigate and resolve issues
• Collaborating closely with partners around the world as well as collecting new software requirements
• Represent the team, SCD and STFC by participating in project meetings as a technical expert

Essential Skills Required:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
• Expertise and experience in software development using Python, PHP, Java, or similar languages
• Knowledge and experience of software engineering methodologies and tools, (i.e. Issue tracking, Continuous Integration, User Interface frameworks, etc)
• Ability to work in a collaborative development environment (i.e. Code Review, Coding styles, etc)
• Degree in a scientific or computing field or proven experience

About us
STFC is part of UKRI, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. We are one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research organisations and the expertise of our computing staff is key to making our research happen. Consequently, we are committed to developing our staff, and training will be provided in relevant areas. We work to drive advances in computing that have genuine real-world applications. Whether it is the search for the Higgs Boson and dark matter, analysing climate data or genomics, our systems solve the biggest and most adventurous problems in scientific computing. SCD develops ground-breaking software, computer and data storage infrastructures, to support the work of outstanding science both within STFC and internationally.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustment to participate in the job application or interview process.

What we can offer you
STFC provides access to a whole host of attractive benefits including:

• An outstanding index linked pension scheme,30 days leave (pro-rata) plus 10 public holidays, Christmas shut down Flexible/Hybrid working patterns and part-time arrangements.
• An onsite subsidised nursery
• Access to employee shopping/travel discounts
• Salary sacrifice cycle to work scheme.
• Social and sporting activities and societies


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