Senior R&D Engineer - DevOps & QA Automation

TN United Kingdom; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Client:

Ansys

Location:

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

9ed4c05f707e

Job Views:

3

Posted:

13.04.2025

Expiry Date:

28.05.2025

Job Description:

Requisition #: 16050

Our Mission: Powering Innovation That Drives Human Advancement

When visionary companies need to know how their world-changing ideas will perform, they close the gap between design and reality with Ansys simulation. For more than 50 years, Ansys software has enabled innovators across industries to push boundaries by using the predictive power of simulation. From sustainable transportation to advanced semiconductors, from satellite systems to life-saving medical devices, the next great leaps in human advancement will be powered by Ansys.

Innovate With Ansys, Power Your Career.

Summary / Role Purpose

The Senior R&D Engineer – Integration will collaborate with others to produce, extend, and maintain our next generation cloud simulation. In this role, the Senior R&D Engineer will use advanced technical and problem-solving skills to blend QA and DevOps-centric automation with cloud microservices software development. Working across QA and Development teams, the engineer will apply industry best practices to satisfy customer requirements, comply with company process standards, and accomplish development objectives.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Participates in planning, architecture, and research
• Performs complex development activities that may require extensive analysis in areas including cloud software/service deployment and distributed system maintenance/scaling
• Employs best practices and helps to maintain them through technical reviews and mentoring
• Investigates problems discovered by QA or product support and develops solutions
• Researches and understands the marketing requirements for a product, including target environment, performance criteria and competitive issues. May work with strategic customers or proxies to assess needs and develop solutions
• Uses modern cloud automation best practices and tooling
• Works independently with minimal supervision and may take on some planning and mentoring responsibilities
• May be responsible for managing interns or co-ops but typically does not have direct reports
• Root cause investigation, automated deployment testing, production incident solving
• Participates with on call rotation as alerts arise

Minimum Education/Certification Requirements and Experience

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 5 years’ experience, MS with 3 years’ experience, or PhD with 1 year experience
• Commercial experience with software design and development methodologies
• CICD development experiences: *nix development environments Container image definition and deployments Python and/or Bash scripting at least 1 CICD tool's pipeline definition as code at least 1 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling ecosystem

Preferred Qualifications and Skills

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent technical knowledge, particularly in platform engineering
• Commercial experience with Java, Python and/or Go.
• Experience with web development, aspect oriented programming, software configuration management, scripting languages, data structures and algorithms
• Experience with github actions or other YAML-defined CICD tools
• Experience with frameworks like Springboot or Fast Api
• Experience with testing frameworks/packages like Junit, Mockito, pyfixtures, or locust
• Understanding of what is under the hood of most modern frameworks (including websockets)
• Experience with one or more industry standard Cloud Service Providers, including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Experience delivering high-quality products in a large-scale commercial software development environment
• Experience with Kubernetes and commercial public cloud services deployments
• Understanding of customer requirements and tools used in this domain
• Ability to work collaboratively in a geographically distributed team

WELCOME WHAT’S NEXT IN YOUR CAREER AT ANSYS

At Ansys, you will find yourself among the sharpest minds and most visionary leaders across the globe. Collectively, we strive to change the world with innovative technology and transformational solutions. With a prestigious reputation in working with well-known, world-class companies, standards at Ansys are high — met by those willing to rise to the occasion and meet those challenges head on. Our team is passionate about pushing the limits of world-class simulation technology, empowering our customers to turn their design concepts into successful, innovative products faster and at a lower cost.

At Ansys, it’s about the learning, the discovery, and the collaboration. It’s about the “what’s next” as much as the “mission accomplished.” And it’s about the melding of disciplined intellect with strategic direction and results that have, can, and do impact real people in real ways. All this is forged within a working environment built on respect, autonomy, and ethics.

CREATING A PLACE WE’RE PROUD TO BE
Ansys is an S&P 500 company and a member of the NASDAQ-100. We are proud to have been recognized for the following more recent awards, although our list goes on: Newsweek’s Most Loved Workplace globally and in the , Gold Stevie Award Winner, America’s Most Responsible Companies, Fast Company World Changing Ideas, Great Place to Work Certified (China, Greece, France, India, Japan, Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and ).

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Created on 13/04/2025 by TN United Kingdom