Package Description

Excellent Salary 

Corporate Benefits Package 

Chance to make a positive difference in a company passionate about diversity and inclusion.

Further information available from the Serco Europe Recruitment Team

Job Introduction

Serco is a partner of choice to the European Institutions and other International Organisations. For the past 30 years, we have been providing European and International Organisations a wide range of services including ICT services in support, infrastructure, operations and development as well as managing different contact centres for the key European Institutions, agencies and organisations, in Brussels and across Europe.

What connects the ever-growing Serco workforce is a passion for delivering great service –
To keep ahead, we have to evolve continually and enhance the way we deliver our services. Everyone in Serco has a role to play, here.

Serco provides the right environment to encourage ideas and a comprehensive Best Practice support network that enables them to put their ideas into action.

We are hiring Software Developers for European Commission DG Informatics (DIGIT TM) in Brussels and various locations around Europe

If you like to work in a multi-cultural and dynamic environment, this opportunity can answer to your expectation.

We look forward to meeting you!  Discover the offer below and click on ‘Apply’ if you know that your skillset and talents are a suitable match for this opportunity.

At Serco, we do not only offer a career but also the opportunity to join a community where everyone’s wellbeing matters, by living out the Serco values in all we do!

 

Main Responsibilities Provide expert advice and assistance, architectural considerations, applicable standards, solution patterns and best practices in J2EE, web services and SSL/TLS technologies. Provide expert advice on confidentiality, integrity, authorisation, authentication, availability. Assist the team to test and conduct periodic vulnerability and security risk assessments. Development of Java applications with focus on maintaining a high level of unit tests coverage. Implementation of security and data protection related changes. Design and develop APIs. Design and creation of scalable software, building reusable code for future use. Compile and analyze data, processes, and code to troubleshoot problems and identify improvements. Testing and bug-fixing. Write technical documentation. Performing different PoCs.

 

Successful Candidate

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

EQF 6 (Bachelor’s degree) or equivalent

SPECIFIC EXPERTISE AND TECHNOLOGIES

Proficiency in Java, J2EE, Spring, Spring boot frameworks. Good knowledge in GIT, Maven, Bamboo, Nexus, Crucible, Jenkins and SonarQube. Good knowledge of the Java platform: garbage collection strategies, memory spaces, class loaders, serialization, multi-threading, syntax and semantics of the Java language, APIs of the Java Development Kit. Good knowledge of databases, directories and transactions: Oracle, SQL, LDAP. Good knowledge of message format standards: XML, XSD, XPATH, WSDL, JSON. Good knowledge of operations including networking, hardware and operating systems: TCP/IP, Linux, databases, directories, shell scripts, virtualisation, load balancers, reverse proxies. Good knowledge of Eclipse and IntelliJ. Good experience in security: HTTPS, TLS, OWASP, Content Security Policy, Web Services (SOAP and REST), authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth, Open ID Connect) is a plus. Experience in JIRA, Confluence. Experience in ServiceNow platform.

 

About the Company

 

Why should you join Serco ?

At Serco not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play.

Meaningful and vital work - You’ll contribute to methodologically intercepting challenges whilst achievements will also be recognised and celebrated.

A world of opportunity - You’ll be wholeheartedly supported with development and career progression

Great people - You’ll become an integral member of a well-defined and supportive team who believe passionately in the value of our work. We are a company passionate about diversity and inclusion. 

What we offer

Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services sector A company passionate about diversity and inclusion Permanent employment with comprehensive Serco Benefits package.

About Serco

Under the DIGIT TM II framework contract Serco provides external service provision in Time and Means for development, consultancy and support in the field of Information Systems for the European Commission, the European Commission Executive Agencies and Joint Research Centre (JRC) on Lot 1, 2 and 3 in Brussels and various locations around Europe.

Serco is a Disability Confident Employer committed to employing and retaining people with disabilities.  Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging. 

Important

Any offer of employment is contingent upon you providing documents to verify your identity and employment eligibility, as required by law.

Applicants are reminded that they will be requested to produce such documentation during the recruitment process.

Please contact a member of the recruitment team if you require further details of acceptable types of documentation required for verification of identity and work authorization. 

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