Engineering Lead

Skills

Job Specifications

Engineering Lead - AI, Cloud & National Security

Package - £110,000 – £120,000 + dv bonus + excellent package

Location - Cheltenham - Hybrid

Clearance - eDV Clearance Required

Overview

Our exciting client is seeking an Engineering Lead to build and lead small, high-performing Agile teams (4–8 engineers) delivering secure, scalable solutions within the UK National Security (NatSec) domain.

This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture, software engineering, and team leadership, with a focus on Software, AI, data platforms, and cloud-native systems.

Key Responsibilities

Lead and mentor Agile engineering teams, driving high-quality, rapid delivery (DevSecOps)
Own solution architecture, designing for secure and constrained environments.
Lead the implementation of the "underpinning tech" for AI, including data pipelines.
Act as a trusted advisor to UK Government stakeholders.
Define technical roadmaps and support cloud transformation (AWS/Azure)

Core Skills

Background in UK National Security / Defence / Government.
Strong leadership experience in software engineering teams.
Proficiency in Python, Go, or Java (+ TypeScript/Node.js desirable)
Expertise in AWS or Azure, Terraform, and Kubernetes (EKS/AKS)
Strong grounding in SQL (Postgres) and NoSQL (MongoDB/DynamoDB)
Experience with CI/CD, microservices, TDD/BDD.
Knowledge of secure system design.

Desirable (AI & Data)

Vector DBs: Milvus, Weaviate, Pinecone
Data orchestration: Airflow, Prefect, Dagster
Search: ElasticSearch / OpenSearch
AI frameworks: LangChain, Hugging Face
MLOps: MLflow, Kubeflow

If you are looking for an opportunity to work on mission-critical systems at the forefront of UK National Security? Apply now or get in touch for a confidential conversation.

About the Company

There hasn't been a more important, yet more challenging time for the UK Defence sector in our lifetimes… Warfare is evolving at a rapid pace, yet the battle for the tech talent that will enable our self-reliance is fierce. With over a decade's experience in the domain, FR Secure partner with the Enterprise Suppliers of today and the Disruptive SMEs of tomorrow to build the teams that are securing our future. Our areas of expertise | Cyber | Cloud & Infrastructure | DevOps, SRE & Platform Engineering | Software Developm... Know more

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