Applications Engineer
Location: Bristol
Salary: Up to £55,000 (DOE)
Headline Benefits: A bonus of up to £2,500, Paid Overtime, Strong pension, 25 days annual leave with the option to accrue 15 additional days flexi leave, enhanced parental leave.
We’re working with an award-winning, engineering organisation, who are looking for an Applications Engineer to join a team that supports projects through established model-based systems engineering processes, while also contributing to the evolution of best practices to enhance efficiency and consistency across our UK engineering operations.
The Applications Engineer role
The department supports a broad set of systems engineering tools based on IBM’s Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) environment, known as Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Whilst much of the toolset has migrated to web-based (including DOORS Next, Engineering Workflow Manager, Engineering Test Manager, Global Configuration, etc), SE&DC also support a set of thick client tools (including DOORS Classic, Rhapsody, EWM Eclipse Client, Method Composer, etc).
Maintaining a reliable, resilient, secure and performant systems engineering toolset whilst concurrently looking to exploit new versions with ever-increasing capability is fundamental to the success of projects, today and in the future. The role will involve liaising with multiple partners including software application suppliers (IBM in particular), internal IM (Information Management) organisation, security, the wider SE&DC team and the engineering user community to continue to provide continuity of service across the systems engineering applications.
Applications Engineer experience required
With a background in IT on thick client software application management, maintenance, testing, security vulnerabilities and OS updates, you will work closely with the IM organisation to manage the software applications that fall within SE&DC’s remit to manage. Alternatively, we will consider a systems engineer that is familiar with working with systems engineering toolsets and is willing to train up on the applications management.
A key aspect of the role will be to provide a liaison between the user community and technical support (IM). The role will grow an understanding of the functionality of the toolset.
Experience in the following is desirable: thick client version management, managing upgrade programmes, packaging new software, security vulnerability management, bug assessment and patching.
Experience in the IBM engineering toolset (Rhapsody, DOORS Classic, IBM ELM ) is desirable, but on-the-job training will be provided to the successful candidate.
You should be eager to enhance your skills in Systems Engineering application management as the underpinning infrastructure and architectures evolve towards web-based technologies. You should also have a passion to explore and exploit emerging technologies including AI and data analytics and their utilisation within the systems engineering application environment.
A degree in a relevant field and relevant experience post-graduation is desirable but not essential.
This is a great opportunity to secure a position as an Applications Engineer where you will work with a fantastic business with steady controlled growth, offering dynamic working, and fantastic opportunities to grow and develop your career further.
The business are firm believers in offering all staff the best possible platform to succeed, providing support for career development as well as personal assistance. They hold numerous awards on the back of this work and have a range of employee networks and internal communities that include Parents and Carers, Gender Equality, Neurodiversity, Pride, Ethnic Diversity and many more. They really care about their staff and are passionate about what they do and why they do it.
Due to the nature of the business, this particular vacancy requires all applicants as a minimum to be a British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship and capable of achieving the clearance levels required by the business.
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