Closing Date - 23:00 on Monday 7th April 2025
£40,921 - £57,704, dependent on skills and experience
Description
About Us
GCHQ is an intelligence, cyber and security agency with a mission to keep the UK safe. We use cutting-edge technology, ingenuity, and partnerships to identify, analyse and disrupt threats. Working with our intelligence partners MI5 and MI6, we protect the UK from terrorism, cyber-attacks, and espionage. At GCHQ you’ll do varied and fascinating work in a supportive and inclusive environment that puts the emphasis on teamwork.
The Roles
Working in software engineering at GCHQ means operating at the heart of our mission. This is your chance to bring your passion to a thriving tech community, surrounded by like-minded experts who share your enthusiasm for innovation. You’ll be part of a broader network of individuals who love technology as much as you do – collaborating, learning, and growing together while working on a range of fascinating projects that challenge and inspire you. As a keen problem-solver who enjoys teamwork, you’ll tackle complex problems and find creative solutions that make a real impact. In doing so, you’ll work with advanced tools, enhance your skills and knowledge, and provide mission-critical solutions with real-world significance.
We currently have a number of technical opportunities available at various locations:
Manchester, Greater Manchester or Samlesbury
You’ll bring your experience to this practical role full of opportunities to develop yourself and others. You might lead and mentor a team, or act as the technical expert – setting the standard and having a positive influence on the wider engineering community. All while helping design new and existing systems, establishing best working practices, and delivering high-quality software products.
What you’ll get
We embrace a growth mindset at GCHQ. We’re committed to your continuous development and offer tailored support to complement your preferred learning style. From bespoke internal courses and mentoring schemes to opportunities to gain professional qualifications (which we’ll fund), you’ll find plenty of support to explore and develop in areas that interest you. In fact, we encourage you to dedicate time to innovation and experimentation.
We also recognise the importance of a healthy work-life balance and offer full-time, part-time, and compressed hours in these roles. Due to the nature of the work, hybrid working can be more restricted, however some home working may be available depending on business requirements.
Plus, you’ll benefit from 25 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), an excellent pension scheme, interest-free season ticket loan, and paid parental and adoption leave.
Ours is a welcoming, friendly, and inclusive workplace where people support each other – and want to make a real difference. We have a range of growing affinity groups supporting gender equality, ethnicity, mental health, neurodiversity, and disability, LGBTQ+, faith and no faith communities. We also have sports, activities, and social groups to help you connect with people who share similar interests.
At GCHQ, diversity and inclusion are critical to our mission. To protect the UK, we need a truly diverse workforce that reflects the society we serve. This includes diversity in every sense of the word: those with different backgrounds, ages, ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, ways of thinking, and those with disabilities or neurodiverse conditions. We therefore welcome and encourage applications from everyone, including those from groups that are under-represented in our workforce, such as women, those from an ethnic minority background, people with disabilities, and those from low socio-economic backgrounds.
We’re Disability Confident
GCHQ is proud to have achieved Leader status within the DWP's Disability Confident scheme. This is aimed at encouraging employers to think differently about disability and take action to improve how they recruit, retain, and develop disabled people. As a Disability Confident employer, we aim to offer a fair and proportionate number of person-to-person interviews to any candidate who self-identifies as disabled and meets the essential criteria for the role.
To be eligible to apply, you must be a British Citizen. If you hold dual nationality, of which one component is British, you will nonetheless be considered. Candidates must normally have been resident in the UK for seven out of the last ten years. This is particularly important if you were born outside the UK. You can apply at the age of 17 years, if successful, you will not be offered a start date prior to your 18th birthday.
Right to Withdraw Statement:
Please be aware that we reserve the right to bring the closing date for this role forward from the original closing date once a certain number of applications have been received. Please be mindful of this and submit your application at your earliest convenience to avoid disappointment.
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