Spectrum IT Recruitment
Graduate Software Engineer
Job Description
Salary: £40,000 - 50,000 per year
Requirements:- Strong academic background, ideally in Computer Science or a similar subject
- Ideally educated at a Russell Group university
- Experience with Python or another object-oriented language
- Good knowledge of Linux/UNIX and an interest in infrastructure
- Curious, proactive, and a strong problem solver
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Support the reliability and performance of core systems
- Automate and improve DevOps workflows
- Monitor systems and respond to incidents
- Troubleshoot infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis
- Support secure, scalable deployments
- Collaborate with developers to improve the deployment process
- Document systems and processes
- DevOps
- Docker
- Grafana
- Support
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Linux
- LXC
- Prometheus
- Python
- Unix
More:
We are a forward-thinking technology company hiring a Graduate / Junior Software Engineer to join our growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone early in their career to gain hands-on experience across a modern infrastructure stack, working on systems that are scalable, secure, and highly available. The role is hybrid, with the requirement to be in our London office 2 days per week. Our tech stack includes Python, C++, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, LXC/LXD, Grafana, and Prometheus.
last updated 31 week of 2026
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Spectrum IT Recruitment
City of London
IT
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£45,000
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£60,000
UK median
This salary is 25% below the UK median for Software Engineers (£60,000/yr).
Based on 2024–2025 UK technology sector benchmarks