Software Engineer - Manchester
Summary
Software Engineer at QinetiQ (defence technology) solving complex technical problems in an Agile-first team, working with Kubernetes infrastructure and automated GitLab delivery pipelines. Salary ranges from £43,000 to £83,000 per year; posting is titled Manchester while the listed location is Farnborough, Hampshire.
Salary: £43,000 - 83,000 per year
Requirements:- Experience working in an Agile-first environment with transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement
- Ability to solve complex technical issues using appropriate tools, design patterns, and in-depth knowledge
- Comfort working with infrastructure such as Kubernetes and automated delivery pipelines using GitLab
- Ability to break down ambiguous problems into concrete, deliverable steps
- Willingness to collaborate across teams and proactively seek guidance when needed
- Interest in sharing knowledge and supporting the development of other team members
- Comfort working on novel challenges and with a degree of ambiguity
- Ability to challenge the status quo and improve processes, codebases, and team efficiency
- Build in-depth knowledge and apply design patterns to solve complex technical issues
- Proactively find and own solutions that improve team processes and efficiency
- Collaborate actively in team meetings
- Engage in design debates and constructively challenge solutions
- Identify technical risks and create or update useful documentation
- Help manage and maintain our own infrastructure, including Kubernetes
- Build automated delivery pipelines using GitLab
- Work closely with Platform Engineers, Delivery Leads, and Product Owners
- GitLab
- Kubernetes
- AI
- Camunda
- DevOps
- ElasticSearch
- Graph Database
- Support
- Neo4J
- React
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We are Naimuri, a technology company that has grown from a little-known tech start-up into a community of 180 people, mostly based in Salford, Greater Manchester, with a significant presence in Cheltenham and London. We work in an Agile-first environment and place people and culture at the heart of our mission of making the UK a safer place to be. We offer a culture of enablement, focus on quality, and active collaboration, alongside continuous personal development through mentoring, training, and a progression framework. The role is based in Salford Quays, Manchester, with flexible full-time working, part-time options that can be discussed, core hours of 10:00am to 3:00pm, and most teams having agreed in-office days. Benefits include flexible/hybrid working options, performance bonus, company bonus, pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%, AXA group 1 medical cover, holiday purchase/buy-back scheme, cycle to work scheme, and car benefit scheme. Depending on the project, you may also be required to travel to a local customer site or occasionally to other locations in the UK.
last updated 36 week of 2026