Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead - Defence
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£54,700
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Description
Introduction
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We Offer
At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK.
A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms.
Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.
We Offer
- Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications
We are looking for a Senior Developer who is aspiring to become a Technical Architect. The role involves leading the design and delivery of secure, scalable, and high performing cloud solutions, primarily on AWS or Azure. The ideal candidate is a hands on senior engineer with strong architectural thinking who is ready to step up into a broader technical leadership role. They should have practical experience with modern application architectures, infrastructure automation, and cloud native engineering within Agile environments.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to and lead the design of cloud based architectures that prioritise scalability, security, performance, and operational excellence.
- Translate business and technical requirements into clear solution designs and work with stakeholders across engineering, product, and delivery.
- Provide technical leadership across full stack development, microservices, distributed systems, event driven patterns, and cloud native application design.
- Use major cloud platform services (AWS or Azure) to build robust, secure, and cost effective solutions.
- Apply cloud Well Architected Framework principles to ensure best practice implementation.
- Support and lead application modernisation efforts including containerisation, serverless adoption, refactoring, and cloud migration.
- Guide teams in CI/CD pipeline creation, automation practices, DevOps workflows, and infrastructure as code.
- Produce architecture diagrams, documentation, standards, and reusable design patterns.
- Work closely with developers, cloud engineers, product owners, and business leaders within Agile delivery teams.
Bachelor's Degree
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
Cloud: AWS or Azure (core compute, storage, networking, API, serverless, and managed database services)
Architecture: Microservices, distributed systems, event driven and serverless patterns
Containerisation: Kubernetes (EKS or AKS), Docker, Helm
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, ARM, Ansible
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, Git platforms
Databases: Relational (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server), NoSQL (DynamoDB or Cosmos DB), optional graph/vector stores
Monitoring & Observability: Cloud native monitoring tools (CloudWatch or Azure Monitor), Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana
Security & Governance: IAM/RBAC, Key Vault/KMS, cloud security services, policies, secrets management
This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
Required Technical And Professional Expertise
Cloud: AWS or Azure (core compute, storage, networking, API, serverless, and managed database services)
Architecture: Microservices, distributed systems, event driven and serverless patterns
Containerisation: Kubernetes (EKS or AKS), Docker, Helm
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep, ARM, Ansible
CI/CD: Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild, Jenkins, Git platforms
Databases: Relational (Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server), NoSQL (DynamoDB or Cosmos DB), optional graph/vector stores
Monitoring & Observability: Cloud native monitoring tools (CloudWatch or Azure Monitor), Application Insights, Prometheus, Grafana
Security & Governance: IAM/RBAC, Key Vault/KMS, cloud security services, policies, secrets management
This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personal Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NVS) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).
Preferred Technical And Professional Experience
Desirable certifications
- AWS or Azure Solutions Architect (Professional/Expert level preferred)
- DevOps Engineer certifications
- Kubernetes certifications (CKA)
- Terraform certification
- Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, Zachman)
- Red Hat Certified Architect (optional)