Engineer

Engineer Full time Salary: £43,918 to £51,238 (dependent on experience)Working pattern: Hybrid working Location: Southampton

About the role

As an Engineer, you will design, build and maintain software components that underpin Ordnance Survey's products and services, working in an iterative, agile delivery environment. You will contribute hands-on engineering expertise while helping to improve how software is designed, delivered and operated across the team.

You will develop software components and modules involved in product generation, along with the supporting infrastructure they rely on. The role requires a DevSecOps mindset, combining sound software engineering, infrastructure awareness and security-by-design to deliver reliable, well tested and maintainable solutions.

You will be expected to take responsibility for the services you build through to production, supporting their operation and helping identify and resolve issues as they arise. Alongside delivery, you will collaborate closely with other engineers and contribute to improving the team's capability in Scala, Databricks and secure engineering practices.

What you'll do

  • Build and maintain software components using modern engineering and iterative delivery practices

  • Provide expert software development and configuration in your technical area

  • Understand, apply and advocate engineering best practices, industry patterns and solutions

  • Ensure software is secure, reliable and thoroughly tested

  • Support and operate the services you create, helping identify and resolve production issues

  • Work collaboratively within agile, cross functional delivery teams

In this role, you will:

  • Provide technical skills to continuously improve engineering capability across all stages of the engineering lifecycle

  • Develop infrastructure, coordinating with project management, geospatial engineers, data scientists and testers to ensure successful outcomes

  • Promote and actively share best practices across teams to drive consistency and quality

  • Operate and support the production services you build, finding opportunities to improve robustness, resilience and overall system stability

About You

We're looking for someone who can build high-quality systems. You'll work with team members and stakeholders, developing and implementing best practices regarding infrastructure and DevOps

You will have experience in:

  • Building, deploying, testing, debugging, scaling, and monitoring secure systems

  • Clear communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and nontechnical stakeholders

  • Developing modules for use on Databricks as well as data access manager

  • Automated Access and Security Management

Key Responsibilities

  • Developing and maintaining production infrastructure

  • Driving improvements in engineering techniques to increase performance of the system and the team

Technical skills we're looking for

  • Azure DevOps and Azure Cloud Services (Entra, Batch, ADLS)

  • Azure Infrastructure as code

  • Data Pipeline tooling (Databricks (with Unity Catalog / Airtable / Spark / ADF etc) experience

  • Experience with Scala, Bicep, Python, PowerShell

Location & Working Pattern

We embrace a hybrid working model at OS, because we believe in flexibility and balance. You'll be based at our fantastic HQ in Southampton, Hampshire, where you'll spend 50% of your working week collaborating face-to-face with colleagues. It's all about combining the best of both worlds connection and autonomy to help you thrive.

Key details

Closing date: 14 May @23:59pm. A covering letter of no more than one page is required and should be submitted with your CV.

Job Details

Company
Ordnance Survey
Location
Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Employment Type
Full-Time
Salary
£43,918 - £51,238 per annum
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