Senior Infrastructure Software Engineer
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Job Description
Play a key role in delivering the core infrastructure behind nextgeneration defence systems.
ALTEN is seeking experienced Infrastructure Software Engineers to support the development and porting of highintegrity software on a longterm UK defence programme. Youll be working on complex Linuxbased environments to deliver robust lowlevel systems supporting missioncritical platforms.
This is an opportunity to take ownership of technical delivery in a secure highperformance setting where your expertise ensures system reliability resilience and readiness.
Location: Manchester (OnSite)
Clearance Required: UK Nationals only / SC Clearable
Experience Level: Senior 5 years)
Key Responsibilities:
- Own and deliver platformlevel software components across the development lifecycle.
- Develop and maintain infrastructurelevel services drivers and lowlevel tools within Linux environments.
- Lead porting activities (e.g. RH9 porting) and ensure compatibility with evolving hardware/software baselines.
- Implement and uphold best practices in performance security and code robustness.
- Collaborate with systems platform and integration teams to support effective build and deployment workflows.
- Work with minimal oversight while ensuring ontime highquality delivery in line with defence requirements.
Qualifications :
Skills & Experience Required:
- 5 years experience in software engineering ideally in platform or infrastructure development.
- Proficiency in C/C Bash and Python in Linux environments.
- Experience with device drivers kernellevel programming or realtime systems.
- Familiarity with Linux build systems like Yocto Buildroot or similar.
- Understanding of system integration networking and lowlevel interfaces.
- Strong experience with version control (Git) and automated build/test pipelines.
- Prior exposure to defence aerospace or similarly regulated engineering domains.
- Must be a UK national and eligible for SC clearance.
Qualifications:
- A Bachelors degree (minimum) in Computer Science Software Engineering Electronics or a related technical field.
- Experience from the UK Armed Forces with applied lowlevel software expertise is equally valued.
- Additional certifications or training in secure coding embedded systems or realtime OSs is a plus.
Additional Information :
Why join us
We foster a community of dually talented individuals who are both entrepreneurs and technology specialists. Our teams embody the spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship enabling us to develop solutions most efficiently.
Our commitment to sustainable growth is unwavering and we continuously strive for accelerated transformation and continuous improvement. Through ALTEN labs mentoring programs internal universities and more we are always pushing boundaries and embracing new possibilities.
We offer incredible opportunities to join inspiring projects in the most innovative companies.
We prioritise your career development with personalised support plans tailored to your own aspirations. Were here to empower you and help you reach your full potential.
Join our passionate team and start building tomorrow today!
In short you get:
- A personalised career path and a rewarding management style
- A chance to work on the most exciting engineering projects and technologies along with Premium Customers
- A huge diversity of engineering projects and industries
- A competitive salary
- Private Medical Insurance
- Pension Scheme
- Cycletowork Scheme among many additional benefits
- Social atmosphere regular gatherings and team buildings
- Flexible way of working (role dependent)
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
