Development

Undergraduate Opportunities (12-month fixed-term contract)

UKCloud provides an exceptional opportunity for undergraduates to gain true exposure to all areas of the software development life cycle.

We are looking for people who are studying a Computing or Engineering related course to join or Development team, helping us to deliver and maintain high quality and extensible applications used by our Customers and own UKCloud teams.

As a company, we commit to the use of agile (especially Scrum and Kanban) in our work and employ modern engineering principles for example pairing, TDD/BDD, micro-services architecture and container-based deployment (e.g. Kubernetes, Docker).

The team comprises a number of technical disciplines, including Software Engineering & Support, Automation, Systems Monitoring, DevOps (CI/CD), DBA, and QA/testing-automation. We are flexible and will support you in a preferred specialism of the above, or help to rotate you through roles / projects in the Development team during the 12-month tenure.

What we do isn’t easy, but it is rewarding and you will be treated and be expected to act like a full member of our team.

Why I work within the UKCloud Development team (existing Undergraduate feedback)

“The respect we all have for each other”

“We never stop trying to improve ourselves”

“I get to work on real projects as part of a Scrum team”

“I’ve learnt loads about how real software development teams work”

Skills and Experience

  • An ability in a development language (one of Ruby, Java or Python ideally)
  • Self-motivated, and hungry for new experiences, skills and knowledge
  • Logical, organised and with high attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills and team-working
  • Awareness of database technologies and designs including Big Data and its uses
  • Some Linux experience, ideally CentOS, RedHat or Ubuntu
  • An understanding of the development lifecycle and any exposure to agile helpful
  • Experience with software version control, for example Git or SVN

Other Information

  • Satisfactory references from your course tutors
  • Excellent results and grades in your assessments and examinations to date
  • This role will be based at the Company’s offices in Farnborough, Hampshire
  • UKCloud is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates
  • Candidates must be eligible to work and live in the UK and will be required to successfully undergo Security Clearance

We’d love to hear from you!

Please send us your CV and covering letter, telling us why you’re interested in the role and working with the UKCloud team: [email protected]

Interviews will take place in between November and January and short-listed candidates will be invited to come and meet us at our offices in Farnborough