Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Burgess hill, UK/Hybrid 3 days

Permanent

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated engineer to enhance platform reliability security and performance This role focuses on identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities strengthening API security and hardening infrastructure The ideal candidate will drive automation improve system resilience and collaborate across engineering and security teams to ensure a robust and scalable environment

Key Responsibilities

Maintain and improve platform reliability availability and performance

Identify assess and remediate security vulnerabilities across systems and applications

Strengthen API security and implement best practices for secure integrations

Harden infrastructure to reduce attack surfaces and improve system resilience

Automate monitoring ing incident response and remediation processes

Lead root cause analysis for incidents and implement preventive measures

Enhance observability through logging metrics and tracing solutions

Collaborate with engineering and security teams to enforce security and reliability standards

Continuously improve system health through proactive issue detection and prevention

Support high availability and disaster recovery strategies

Preferred Qualifications

Experience in Site Reliability Engineering SRE DevOps or Platform Engineering roles

Strong understanding of system reliability scalability and performance tuning

Knowledge of security principles vulnerability management and infrastructure hardening

Experience with API security authentication authorization rate limiting etc

Handson experience with monitoring and observability tools eg Splunk

Familiarity with cloud platforms and containerized environments Docker Kubernetes etc

Experience with automation and scripting Python Bash or similar

Strong problemsolving skills and experience in incident management

Required Technology Skillset

SRE

Threat Vulnerability

Endpoint Security

API

Java

Sprint Boot

VertX

Java 3rd party integration

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Observability