Job Title Software Engineer
Job Reference DIA0773/CB
Post Type
Division Science
Salary information Competitive
Application deadline Open Vacancy


Job Description

Diamond Light Source is the UK’s national synchrotron science facility. Located at Harwell Science and Innovation Campus in Oxfordshire, we enable world-leading research across a wide range of scientific disciplines and industrial applications.

Duties to include:

• Participate in the implementation of unique indentifiers for diamond beamlines and participate in the development of authentification and authorization infrastructure  for Diamond;
• Participate in meetings with PANData Collaborators where appropriate;
• Contribute to the provision of policy/ documentation for software implementation;
• Assist with implementation and execution of linking infrastructure for unique identifier software

Qualification & Experience - Essential

  • Ability and initiative to get to the heart of the problem and take it effectively through to completion;
  • Good interpersonal, communication  and presentational skills;
  • Enjoys team work;
  • Self motivated, interested in keeping pace with software testing best practises;
  • Ability to interact effectively with colleagues and staff at collaborating facilities as peers;
  • Use of software development frameworks and applications such as Eclipse;
  • Experience of modern object oriented programming languages such as Java, C, C++ and Python

 

Qualification & Experience - Desirable

  • Knowledge of French or German Language;
  • Available to travel occasionally in UK and overseas including overnight absences;
  • Experience of UNIX-like operating systems and their administration;
  • Experience of Microsoft operating systems and their administration;
  • Background in using software engineering techniques including continuous integration and testing strategies for development.

Further Information

Applying for employment

For further details on applying for employment at Diamond, please visit our 'Application Form' page.

Appointments will be made depending on the skills and experience of the candidate. Electronic Diamond application forms in MS-Word are preferred. These should be emailed to recruitment@diamond.ac.uk



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