Overview
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Application Engineer
Location: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, UK (F/T Site)
Security Clearance Level: DV
Role
The role of the Application Engineer is to manage and maintain a suite of applications across multiple domains supporting Geospatial capability, across the PITSM Programme. Working closely with Core Services and Normal Change teams to ensure the baseline is maintained, operational users have the most up to date applications to meet mission requirements and that obsolescence/ security issues are proactively managed.
Key Activities
* Manage and Maintain the Application Baseline across multiple domains.
* Provide support to Core Services and Agile Change Teams ensuring the baseline is maintained and ensuring the operational users have the most up to date applications to meet mission requirements.
* Liaise with teams to ensure a seamless flow of information across the organisation, including sub-contractor SMEs and customer Resolver groups.
* Under the direction of the Technical Lead, maintain and deliver small and large application upgrades for a fixed and deployed environment.
* Provide clients with technical support as needed and relay information to development teams for ongoing maintenance and update needs.
* Integrate with ITAM and obsolescence teams to obtain vendor information on software lifecycles and maintenance agreements.
* Optimize applications by integrating new technologies and performing upgrades.
* Perform diagnostic tests and debugging procedures while improving code and redesigning tasks.
* Generate ideas for software innovation based on market trends.
* Document and develop processes, procedures and application version histories.
* Enhance and develop Leidos’s relationship with MOD, Military and other Contractors.
* Support the investigation and resolution of problems relating to Application Deployment.
* Review and increase awareness of Hardware or Software changes to the systems that we support to ensure impacts are understood and managed through to deployment.
* Support the deployment of any software application, upgrade or patch that ensures the system maintains accreditation by following the MODCERT process.
Clearance
* Clearance to Start – DV
* Clearance for Role – DV
What We Do For You
At Leidos we are passionate about customer success, united as a team and inspired to make a difference. We offer meaningful and engaging careers, a collaborative culture, and support for your career goals, all while nurturing a healthy work-life balance. We provide an employment package that attracts, develops and retains talent. Our reward scheme includes:
* Contributory Pension Scheme
* Private Medical Insurance
* 33 days Annual Leave (including public and privilege holidays)
* Flexible benefits (including life assurance, health schemes, gym memberships, annual buy and sell holidays and a cycle to work scheme)
* Dynamic Working
Diversity and Inclusion
We welcome applications from every part of the community and are committed to a truly diverse and inclusive culture. We foster a sense of belonging, welcoming all perspectives and contributions, and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for everyone. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages please let us know, and we will respond in a way that best fits your needs.
Who We Are
Leidos UK & Europe – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science. Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services. Our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.
What Makes Us Different
Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Collaboration: flexible work arrangements are a core benefit. People: Leidos empowers people from every background to learn and grow. We invest in technical academies, career rotations and development plans. This is a role for the restless, the over-caffeinated, the ones who ask, “what’s next?” If you’re already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2… good. You’ll fit right in.
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