Leidos is an innovation company rapidly addressing the worlds most vexing challenges in national security and health. Driven by our core values and customer focus, our employees collaborate to create smarter technology solutions for customers in these critical markets. Due to an exciting win supporting UK Defence customers, we have a requirement for a security-cleared Application Engineer to focus on the integration, configuration and adaptation of the IBL Visual Weather product into a key critical system. This role will be based in the UK working at our Farnborough site, remotely and also with some travel to customer locations. Are you ready for your next challenge? Leidos has more than 30 years’ experience of developing and running some of the largest government systems in the world. Being part of the Leidos team is a commitment to push yourself and those around you to do better, constantly adapt and learn new technologies. Leidos is a global science and technology solutions leader working to solve the worlds toughest challenges in the defence, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people and our community. Our mission and our values guide the way we do business. The foundation of our Leidos culture is our Values, Beliefs and Expectations by which we select, recognise and reward employees. They create the environment that drives us toward our mission. Inspired to make a difference, we are committed to solving the world’s toughest problems. Your Role and Responsibilities; As a result of some exciting programme wins, we currently have a permanent vacancy for a Application Engineer with highly desirable experience in Visual Weather to support the integration and transition into live of a new IT application and infrastructure solution providing support to a critical operational end user. The Application Engineer will provide input and expertise to maintain alignments with best practices and recommending Application integration process improvements. They will also support the development of junior engineers in the program/team. This individual is expected to create an environment for innovation and technical mentoring. You will be self-motivated and be able to work autonomously to achieve day to day objectives with significant results on project or operational deliverables, whilst also owning a variety of activities ensuring compliance with project milestones and customer KPIs and SLAs. You must be an effective communicator, comfortable directly engaging with customers and colleagues. You must also demonstrate an analytical and systematic approach to technical challenges. The successful individual will be expected to: • Provide DevOps skills engaging in a scrum team being an active part of its delivery and continuous improvement • Develop, test, document and deploy elements of the solution and ensure KT is appropriate for the movement into service • Work with delivery teams to design and implement and integrate modern, scalable products using a range of existing, new and emerging technologies • Collaborate with the wider teams seeking to learn and improve with every sprint • Communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context of the delivery • Work with Product Owners to understand user needs for workflows and UX configurations WHO DO WE NEED? We are looking for someone with excellent organisation communication and development skills who has: • Understanding and experience of the importance of secure by design and delivering within a secure environment • Experience in complex application deployment and integration in both Cloud and On-Prem environments • An understanding of DevOps tooling including Ansible, Jenkins and other pipeline technologies • Good knowledge & experience with development in, and software engineering best practices for: • Java, Python, JSON, Javascript, APIs, Web Services • Good experience of containerisation concepts and tools such as Docker and Kubernetes (EKS) • Experience of system integration methodologies and data visualisation • Good knowledge & experience of API development and management, including rigorous test and assurance processes • Experience and knowledge of SonarQube, JFrog, NiFi, Tomcat, Jira, Junit, Jmeter, Bitbucket, Nexus, Trivy,, Gitlab, and Bamboo • Good general knowledge of Networking Technologies including load balancing and firewalls • Highly Desirable: Experience with Visual Weather software • Desirable: Experience with OGC Web Serivces • Desirable: Experience with Thin Client Application delivery • Desirable: Working within a Scaled Agile Frameowrk (SAFe) delivery approach • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), APIs and Data Distribution Protocols • Good analytical and problem-solving skills, taking ownership of complex incidents ensuring these are resolved to the satisfaction of the customer • Possess excellent written and verbal communication skills