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